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>>HI FRIENDS, THIS IS
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO
HEAR AN AMAZING FACT?
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MORE AND MORE OF THE WORLD IS
TURNING, NOW, TO NATURAL FORMS
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OF ENERGY TO TRY AND FIND THEIR
POWER AND THEY'RE RESORTING TO
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THINGS LIKE THE WIND FARM
THAT WE HAVE HERE IN JAMAICA AT
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WIGTON. YOU KNOW,
I REMEMBER YEARS AGO,
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MY WIFE AND I GOING TO VISIT THE
BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND WE WERE
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AMAZED AT ALL THE POTENTIAL
THERE FOR NATURAL POWER,
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BUT THEY WEREN'T USING
IT. THERE AT THE SOUTH PART OF
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THE ISLAND THERE
WAS VOLCANIC ACTIVITY.
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YOU CAN MAKE GEOTHERMAL POWER
THERE. IF YOU WENT TO WIAMEA,
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THE WIND WAS CONSTANTLY BLOWING,
BUT THEY HAD NO WINDMILLS THERE.
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IF YOU WENT OVER TO KONA, SUN
ALWAYS SHINES - SOLAR ELECTRIC -
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BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY
MUCH SOLAR ELECTRIC THERE.
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AND IF YOU WENT TO HILO, IT WAS
ALWAYS RAINING - HYDROELECTRIC.
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AND IN SPITE OF ALL THAT
POTENTIAL FOR POWER THERE ON THE
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BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII, THEY WERE
POWERING THE ISLAND BACK THEN
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WITH DIRTY DIESEL GENERATORS.
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IT MADE ME THINK ABOUT HOW
WE SOMETIMES WASTE THE POWER OF
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GOD'S SPIRIT THAT HE'S
MAKING AVAILABLE TO US.
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AND EACH OF US CAN HAVE
THAT SPIRIT IF WE SIMPLY ASK.
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YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH
CHAPTER 10 - WHAT DO WE DO?
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'ASK OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE
TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN AND HE
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WILL SEND FLASHING CLOUDS.'
JESUS ALSO SAID, IN THE BOOK OF
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LUKE, 'IF YOU THEN BEING EVIL
KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO
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YOUR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE
WILL YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN GIVE
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THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO THEM THAT ASK?'
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WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF
ACTS, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
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POURED OUT, IT SAYS THERE WAS A
SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND.
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AND THAT POWER THAT LAUNCHED THE
CHURCH BACK THEN CAN STILL POWER
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YOUR LIFE TODAY, FRIENDS. SO
WHY DON'T YOU ASK HIM? (MUSIC)
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>>DEEP WITHIN THE PAGES OF THE
BIBLE - STORIES OF GREAT HEROES
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- HEROES OF GREAT DEEDS - GREAT
LOVE AND GREAT SACRIFICE, BUT
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BEHIND THEM IS ANOTHER HERO.
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT AMID THE
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SHADOWS, HE WAS THERE
FROM THE BEGINNING AND HE'LL BE
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THERE UNTIL THE END.
DISCOVER THE GOLDEN THREAD OF
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A SAVIOR WOVEN THROUGHOUT
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SHADOWS OF LIGHT: SEEING JESUS
IN ALL THE BIBLE , A NEW BOOK BY
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>>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN
IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED
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CONCEPT. >>HELLO,
THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
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THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
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TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
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THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
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BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
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IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
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GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
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EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
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IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
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MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
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FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
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TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
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SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S MESSAGE,
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OUR MISSION. (MUSIC)
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>>WE WERE GOING TO
CHURCH EVERY OTHER WEEK.
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ABOUT 19 YEARS OLD THINGS REALLY
START TO MAKE SENSE FOR ME.
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I STARTED TO GO
TO CHURCH FOR MYSELF.
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AND THE PASTOR
WANTED TO STUDY WITH ME.
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WE CAME TO THE
STUDY ABOUT BAPTISM.
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I KIND OF JUST SHRUGGED, PUT MY
HEAD DOWN, AND I SAID, 'I'M NOT
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READY.' HE LOOKED ME IN THE EYE
AND SAID, 'JASON, YOU'LL NEVER
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MAKE YOURSELF READY. YOU KNOW,
THIS IS JUST SOMETHING YOU HAVE
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TO DO.' I PUT A LOT OF THINGS
BEHIND ME - THE DRINKING AND
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SMOKING - ALL
THAT STUFF STOPPED.
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ALL THROUGHOUT THE TIME WHEN I'D
BEEN LEARNING ABOUT GOD, IT WAS
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JUST ME AND GOD. IT
COMES AROUND UP TO ABOUT
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AUGUST AND I MEET THIS
GIRL. ABOUT TWO YEARS INTO THE
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RELATIONSHIP WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT MARRIAGE AND EVERYTHING.
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WE DIDN'T PRAY - WE
DIDN'T STUDY TOGETHER.
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WE WERE ARGUING A
LOT, BUT WE WERE ENGAGED.
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I STARTED DRINKING AGAIN AND IT
WAS A SLOW, DOWNWARD SPIRAL AND
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DIFFERENT THINGS AND MY
DEVOTIONAL LIFE STARTED REALLY
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WEASELING AWAY. WHEN WE
BROKE UP IN 2008, IT WAS
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HEAVY FOR ME BECAUSE, AGAIN,
BEING WITH SOMEBODY FOR THAT
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LONG, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A
DIVORCE. I STARTED TO FALL BACK
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AWAY EVEN MORE. I
REMEMBER LOOKING IN THE
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MIRROR, JUST LOOKING AT MYSELF
AND SAYING, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
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HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO
GOD WHO'S BROUGHT YOU SO FAR?'
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AND, YOU KNOW, GOD
REALLY HEARD MY CRY.
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THERE WAS A TESTIMONY TELLING AT
MY CHURCH AND THERE WAS A CALL
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AND KIDS STARTED GETTING UP
- A BUNCH OF HIGH SCHOOL KIDS
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STARTED GETTING UP
FOR CALLS OF BAPTISM.
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I'M BACK DOING THE P.A.
SYSTEM AT THIS TIME AND I FEEL
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JUST LIKE THIS URGE - JUST MY
HEART JUST STARTED RIPPING OUT
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OF MY CHEST AND I JUST HAD
THIS FEELING JUST TO GO UP.
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I GET UP TO THE FRONT AND I
MEET THE PASTOR IN OPEN ARMS.
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I REALIZED THAT THERE'S SO MUCH
MORE TO LIFE THAN JUST LIVING
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LIFE FOR MYSELF AND, YOU
KNOW, FALLING AWAY, IT'S NOT A
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NECESSITY, BUT GOD CAN WORK
THROUGH ANYTHING IN THE BAD TO
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MAKE IT THE GOOD.
THAT'S A PROMISE HE MAKES.
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MY NAME IS JASON.
I'VE RECLAIMED MY FAITH.
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>>AMEN. WELL,
WELCOME ONCE AGAIN,
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FRIENDS, TO RECLAIM YOUR FAITH
. THERE ARE TWO GREAT STATEMENTS
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OF JESUS THAT HE MAKES IN
THE BIBLE THAT REALLY HELP US TO
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CALIBRATE WHAT THE
PURPOSE OF LIFE IS.
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IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 11,
JESUS SAYS, 'COME UNTO ME.'
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AND THEN IN MATTHEW 28 HE
SAYS, 'GO AND TELL THE WORLD.'
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THE TWO GREAT PRIORITIES OF
LIFE ARE COMING TO JESUS AND
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THEN GOING FOR JESUS. IT'S
REALLY COMING TO HIM - THIS
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LOVE RELATIONSHIP AND
THEN GOING FOR HIM - THIS
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LOVE RELATIONSHIP. AND
EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECONDARY
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TO SEEKING FIRST GOD'S
KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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BUT THE DEVIL HAS A THOUSAND
DISTRACTIONS TO KEEP US FROM
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MAKING IT TO GOD'S KINGDOM - TO
KEEP US FROM MAKING IT TO THAT
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HOME HE'S PREPARED
FOR EVERYBODY HERE.
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THE LORD HAS PREPARED A PLACE
FOR YOU AND THE DEVIL WANTS TO
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GET YOU SIDELINED - DISTRACTED -
WHERE YOU LOSE YOUR BEARINGS AND
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YOU START BECOMING PREOCCUPIED
WITH THE CARES OF LIFE.
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YOU KNOW, I'M FASCINATED WITH
ANIMAL MIGRATION AND HOW SOME OF
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THESE CREATURES ARE MANAGED TO
COVER THOUSANDS OF MILES, LIKE
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THESE ARCTIC TERNS GO
12,000 MILES TWICE A YEAR.
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I THINK THEY'RE
ONE OF THE FARTHEST.
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MONARCH BUTTERFLIES -
2000 MILES - A BUTTERFLY!
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FROM CANADA TO MEXICO.
AND THEN HOMING PIGEONS ARE
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AMAZING - HOW THEY CAN TRANSPORT
THEM TO SOME REMOTE PART OF THE
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PLANET, LET THEM GO, AND THEY
MIGHT CIRCLE ONCE AND THEN THEY
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MAKE A BEELINE TO THEIR HOMES.
I THINK ONE OF THE RECORDS WAS
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A PIGEON THAT WAS RELEASED IN
ARRECIFE, FRANCE AND IT MANAGED
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TO GO 7,200 MILES IN 24 DAYS
TO ITS HOME IN SAIGON, VIETNAM.
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MADE A STRAIGHT LINE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, EVEN SOME OF
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THESE ANIMALS THAT YOU THINK
WOULD HAVE A WIRED ABILITY TO
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FIND THEIR WAY
HOME, THEY GET LOST.
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I THINK ONE OF THE MOST SEVERE
EXAMPLES OF THIS HAPPENED IN
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1997 WHEN THEY HAD SOME PIGEON
- HOMING PIGEON RACE, WHERE ALL
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THESE PEOPLE IN ENGLAND,
THEY TOOK THEIR BIRDS TO FRANCE,
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SOUTH FRANCE, THEY
RELEASED 60,000 HOMING PIGEONS.
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE ENGLISH
CHANNEL 20,000 OF THEM GOT
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CONFUSED OR DISTRACTED OR LOST -
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED -
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IT'S NEVER HAPPENED LIKE THIS
BEFORE - AND THEY NEVER MADE IT
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BACK TO THEIR HOMES IN
ENGLAND - THEY'RE LOST.
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AND, BY THE WAY, THAT
REPRESENTED ABOUT $600,000.00
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WORTH OF PIGEONS THAT GOT
SIDETRACKED ALONG THE WAY.
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SOMETIMES GOD'S
SHEEP GET SIDETRACKED.
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JESUS TELLS A PARABLE ABOUT
THAT. BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, I
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LOVE THE PARABLES THAT YOU FIND
CHRIST SHARING - AND WE'RE GOING
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TO TALK - TOMORROW EVENING
ABOUT THE ONE ABOUT THE SON, BUT
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YOU'VE GOT A SHEEP, YOU'VE GOT A
COIN, YOU'VE GOT A SON AND THEY
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ALL START OUT IN THE
RIGHT PLACE, BUT THEN SOMETHING
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HAPPENS AND THEY
END UP GETTING LOST.
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BUT THERE IS GREAT
REJOICING WHEN THEY'RE FOUND.
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AND ALL OF THEM, WHETHER IT'S
THE LOST COIN OR THE LOST SON,
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OR THE LOST SHEEP,
ALL OF THEM ARE SOUGHT.
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WELL, YOU KNOW, FRIENDS,
IF YOU'VE WANDERED FROM JESUS,
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THERE IS SOMEONE
WHO IS SEEKING FOR YOU.
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GOD WANTS US TO
FIND OUR WAY BACK HOME.
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LET ME READ THIS PARABLE TO
YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
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TONIGHT DEALING WITH DEADLY
DISTRACTIONS - LUKE 15, AND
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I'LL START WITH
VERSE 4. LUKE 15, VERSE 4.
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JESUS ASKS, "WHAT MAN OF YOU
HAVING A HUNDRED SHEEP, IF HE
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LOSES ONE OF THEM, DOES NOT
LEAVE THE 99 IN THE WILDERNESS
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AND GO AFTER THAT ONE WHICH
IS LOST, UNTIL HE FINDS IT?
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AND WHEN HE HAS FOUND IT HE LAYS
IT ON HIS SHOULDERS REJOICING,
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AND WHEN HE COMES HOME HE CALLS
HIS FRIENDS TOGETHER AND HIS
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NEIGHBORS AND HE SAYS TO THEM,
'REJOICE WITH ME, FOR I HAVE
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FOUND MY SHEEP THAT WAS LOST.'
I SAY TO YOU THAT LIKEWISE,
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THERE WILL BE MORE JOY IN HEAVEN
OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS THAN
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OVER 99 JUST PERSONS
WHO NEED NO REPENTANCE."
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JESUS TELLS US A SIMILAR
PARABLE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 18,
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IF YOU WANT TO TURN THERE
QUICKLY, WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT
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THAT LOST SHEEP. "FOR
THE SON OF MAN" - AND THIS
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IS VERSE 11 , MATTHEW 18 -
"FOR THE SON OF MAN HAS COME TO
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SEEK THAT WHICH WAS
LOST. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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A MAN HAS A HUNDRED SHEEP AND
ONE OF THEM GOES ASTRAY; DOES HE
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NOT LEAVE THE NINETY AND NINE
AND GO INTO THE MOUNTAINS TO
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SEEK THAT ONE THAT IS STRAYING.
AND SHOULD HE FIND IT, ASSUREDLY
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I SAY TO YOU, HE REJOICES MORE
OVER THAT SHEEP THAN OVER THE
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NINETY AND NINE
THAT DID NOT GO ASTRAY.
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EVEN SO, IT IS NOT THE WILL"
- THIS IS WHAT MATTHEW SAYS THAT
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IS UNIQUE FROM LUKE - "EVEN
SO, IT IS NOT THE WILL OF YOUR
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FATHER WHO IS IN HEAVEN THAT
ONE OF THESE LITTLE ONES SHOULD
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PERISH. GOD DOES NOT WANT
TO LOSE ONE. GOD IS NOT WILLING
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THAT ANY SHOULD BE LOST.
AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE SOME
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OF YOU WHO THINK THAT
YOU'VE WANDERED TOO FAR.
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NOW, IN THE THREE PARABLES THAT
YOU FIND THERE IN LUKE - YOU'VE
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GOT THE LOST COIN - IT SORT
OF DOESN'T EVEN KNOW IT'S LOST -
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AND THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE LIKE
THAT, THAT THEY THINK THEY'RE
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OKAY AND THEY DON'T
REALIZE THEY NEED TO BE SOUGHT.
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AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE LOST
SHEEP THAT IT REALIZES THAT IT'S
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BEEN MISPLACED, BUT IT
DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO GET HOME.
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IT NEEDS SOMEONE TO GO AFTER
IT, IT NEEDS SOME DIRECTION.
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HOW DOES A SHEEP GET
LOST? DOES THAT SHEEP CONSPIRE?
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IT LOOKS AROUND ONE DAY, IT
PACKS IT BAGS, IT WAITS UNTIL
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THE SHEPHERD IS NOT WATCHING AND
SAYS, 'I'M GOING TO MAKE A RUN
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FOR IT. SEE IF I CAN ESCAPE.'
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SHEEP, TYPICALLY,
AREN'T THINKING THAT WAY.
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WHAT HAPPENS IS THEY'RE OUT
NIBBLING AND, YOU KNOW, SHEEP
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KIND OF KEEP THEIR HEADS DOWN
AND THEY JUST SORT OF GO FROM
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ONE TUFT OF GRASS TO ANOTHER
TUFT OF GRASS AND WHILE THEY'RE
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EATING THIS GRASS, THEY'RE
EYEING WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GO
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NEXT. THEY SAY, 'THAT ONE LOOKS
PRETTY GOOD.' AND THEY GO OVER
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TO THIS PIECE OF GRASS, 'MMM,
THAT WAS REALLY GOOD. HEY, THAT
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OVER THE FENCE LOOKS BETTER' -
BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THE GRASS IS
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ALWAYS GREENER ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE, RIGHT?
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AND HE STICKS HIS HEAD AND
ONE FOOT THROUGH THE FENCE AND
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NIBBLES ON THAT AND THEN NIBBLES
AND NIBBLES AND NIBBLES AND JUST
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LIKE A DOT-TO-DOT DRAWING IT
NIBBLES ITS WAY INTO BEING LOST.
00:13:46.25\00:13:52.59
YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE
ARE WANDERING FROM JESUS AND IT
00:13:52.59\00:13:56.23
STARTS BY MAKING
SMALL COMPROMISES.
00:13:56.23\00:14:00.14
'WELL, YEAH, I KNOW I'M NOT
SUPPOSED TO BE DRINKING ANYMORE,
00:14:00.14\00:14:02.90
I GAVE THAT UP BUT, YOU
KNOW, IT'S A SPECIAL OCCASION.
00:14:02.90\00:14:06.61
AND MY FRIENDS, THEY'RE JUST
GOING TO PASS AROUND ONE LITTLE
00:14:06.61\00:14:09.11
GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AND WE'RE
JUST GOING TO TOAST THIS ONE
00:14:09.11\00:14:11.41
PERSON AND THEN IT'S OVER WITH -
I MEAN, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?'
00:14:11.41\00:14:16.28
AND THEN THEY TRY TO FIND THAT
VERSE THERE IN JOHN CHAPTER 2
00:14:16.28\00:14:18.72
AND SAY, 'AFTER ALL, JESUS
TURNED THE WATER INTO WINE.
00:14:18.72\00:14:22.19
AND IT'S NOT WHAT GOES IN
YOUR MOUTH THAT DEFILES YOU
00:14:22.19\00:14:23.86
BUT IT'S WHAT COMES OUT.'
00:14:23.86\00:14:26.03
AND THEY FIND SOMETHING -
AND THEY DRINK A LITTLE BIT.
00:14:26.03\00:14:28.83
WELL THAT MAKES IT A LOT EASIER
WHEN THEY GET TOGETHER WITH
00:14:28.83\00:14:30.60
THEIR FRIENDS WHO MAY NOT
BE CHURCHGOING FRIENDS AT THE
00:14:30.60\00:14:32.83
FOOTBALL GAME AND THEY
START PASSING AROUND THE BEER.
00:14:32.83\00:14:35.70
AND THEN IT BECOMES TWO,
AND THEN IT BECOMES ONCE EVERY
00:14:35.70\00:14:39.71
WEEKEND AND THEN IT
BECOMES ONCE EVERY DAY.
00:14:39.71\00:14:42.94
AND THEY NIBBLE
THEIR WAY INTO BEING LOST.
00:14:42.94\00:14:46.92
AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS DRUGS - AS
WE'VE HEARD IN SOME TESTIMONIES.
00:14:46.92\00:14:50.65
SOMETIMES PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY
GET DISTRACTED WITH EDUCATION.
00:14:50.65\00:14:56.26
THEY SAY, 'WELL, YOU
KNOW, THE LORD UNDERSTANDS -
00:14:56.26\00:14:58.73
I'VE GOT TO GET MY CAREER SET.
00:14:58.73\00:15:01.56
AND I KNOW I'M GOING TO BE ON
THIS SECULAR CAMPUS AND THERE'LL
00:15:01.56\00:15:04.00
BE SOME THINGS HAPPENING
BUT, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST GOING TO
00:15:04.00\00:15:05.83
REALLY PUT MY EDUCATION
FIRST DURING THESE YEARS.'
00:15:05.83\00:15:07.94
- AND SOME PEOPLE MAKE THOSE
LITTLE NIBBLES WHILE THEY'RE AT
00:15:07.94\00:15:10.97
SCHOOL AND THEY NIBBLE THEIR WAY
RIGHT OUT OF THE FOLD AND ONE
00:15:10.97\00:15:14.58
DAY THEY WAKE UP AND THEY SAY,
'I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE OTHER
00:15:14.58\00:15:17.01
SHEEP ARE. I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE
00:15:17.01\00:15:18.68
THE SHEPHERD IS.
HOW DID I GET HERE?
00:15:18.68\00:15:23.42
THERE'S A LOT OF DISTRACTIONS
THAT THE DEVIL'S GOT OUT THERE.
00:15:23.42\00:15:26.59
HE'S GOT A THOUSAND THINGS
TO TAKE AWAY OUR ATTENTION,
00:15:26.59\00:15:29.82
ESPECIALLY IN THIS MEDIA-CRAZED
WORLD THAT WE'RE LIVING IN.
00:15:29.82\00:15:33.16
YOU CAN'T LOOK ANYWHERE - JUST
DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD THERE ARE
00:15:33.16\00:15:35.56
MESSAGES THAT ARE BLARING
AND FLASHING - YOU'RE BEING
00:15:35.56\00:15:38.30
ASSAULTED CONTINUALLY WITH A
BLIZZARD OF INFORMATION AND THE
00:15:38.30\00:15:42.50
DEVIL HAS SO MANY OTHER THINGS
TO OCCUPY YOUR MIND THAT IT'S
00:15:42.50\00:15:46.84
EASY FOR US TO FORGET WHAT
THE REALLY IMPORTANT THING IS -
00:15:46.84\00:15:51.38
SEEKING FIRST THE KINGDOM
OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:15:51.38\00:15:55.18
AND NOW WE'VE GOT ALL OF IT AT
OUR FINGERTIPS WITH OUR PHONES
00:15:55.18\00:15:58.82
NOW. YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY, WHEN
00:15:58.82\00:16:01.52
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL WAS TOLD
THAT THE TELEPHONE - WHEN HE
00:16:01.52\00:16:05.13
FIRST INVENTED THE TELEPHONE
- HE TOOK IT TO THE TELEGRAPH
00:16:05.13\00:16:07.76
COMPANY - YOU'D THINK AT&T WOULD
SAY, 'YEAH, IT'S A GREAT IDEA.'
00:16:07.76\00:16:11.27
HE TOOK IT TO THE TELEGRAPH
COMPANY AND THEY SAID IT WAS A
00:16:11.27\00:16:13.90
NOVELTY WITH NO
REAL PRACTICAL USE.
00:16:13.90\00:16:21.84
YOU KNOW, ACCORDING TO THE
NATIONAL - PARDON ME, I JUST -
00:16:21.84\00:16:33.92
YOU CAN VISIT WITH EACH OTHER
FOR A MOMENT, I'LL BE RIGHT WITH
00:16:33.92\00:16:36.42
YOU HERE. HELLO.
>>(MUFFLED VOICE)
00:16:36.42\00:16:42.60
>>OH, PASTOR ROSS WAS CHECKING
TO MAKE SURE I TURNED MY PHONE
00:16:42.60\00:16:45.03
OFF. I'VE BEEN
WANTING TO DO THAT FOR YEARS.
00:16:45.03\00:16:53.11
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES MY
SERMON HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED BY A
00:16:53.11\00:16:54.88
CELL PHONE? THIS IS
MY CHANCE TO GET EVEN.
00:16:54.88\00:17:02.55
NOW I'M GOING TO TURN IT
OFF. YOU KNOW IT IS TRUE.
00:17:02.55\00:17:07.06
ONE OF THE LEADING
CAUSES OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ARE
00:17:07.06\00:17:10.59
DISTRACTIONS THAT ARE
GOING ON WITHIN THE CAR.
00:17:10.59\00:17:15.06
I MEAN IT'S - ALCOHOL, OF
COURSE, IS A BIG CAUSE, BUT THE
00:17:15.06\00:17:18.47
NATIONAL HEALTH TRANSPORTATION
SAFETY ASSOCIATION DID A STUDY
00:17:18.47\00:17:24.94
AND SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL
ACTIONS THAT CAUSED DISTRACTED
00:17:24.94\00:17:27.98
DRIVING AND LEAD TO CRASHES ARE:
CELL PHONE USE, REACHING FOR A
00:17:27.98\00:17:34.25
MOVING OBJECT INSIDE THE
VEHICLE, - YOU EVER HAVE THAT
00:17:34.25\00:17:37.12
BOTTLE OF WATER ROLLING AROUND
BY YOUR FEET AND IT GETS LODGED
00:17:37.12\00:17:39.59
UNDERNEATH THE - YOU KNOW YOU
SLOW DOWN IT ROLLS OFF THE SEAT
00:17:39.59\00:17:42.19
UNDERNEATH YOUR
BRAKE PEDAL OR SOMETHING.
00:17:42.19\00:17:45.23
DON'T ASK ME HOW I KNOW THAT.
00:17:45.23\00:17:50.30
- LOOKING FOR AN OBJECT OR EVENT
OUTSIDE THE VEHICLE THAT HAS
00:17:50.30\00:17:53.74
NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CAR IN
FRONT OF YOU, - I ACTUALLY SAW
00:17:53.74\00:17:57.64
AN ACCIDENT LAST WEEK - I CAME
UP TO THE INTERSECTION RIGHT
00:17:57.64\00:18:02.08
NEAR BONNIE'S HOUSE AND I
STOPPED - AN AMBULANCE STARTED
00:18:02.08\00:18:05.38
COMING THROUGH - I WAS ALREADY
STOPPED AND AS IT CAME AND IT
00:18:05.38\00:18:08.25
MADE ITS WAY AROUND THE CORNER,
SOME OTHER PEOPLE THAT WERE
00:18:08.25\00:18:10.15
TURNING, THEY STOPPED BECAUSE
IT'S AN AMBULANCE - THE PEOPLE
00:18:10.15\00:18:12.92
BEHIND THEM WERE, I THINK,
PAINTING THEIR TOENAILS, OR
00:18:12.92\00:18:15.86
SOMETHING, IN THE CAR AND THEY
JUST WATCHED THEM PLOW INTO THE
00:18:15.86\00:18:19.36
BACK. IT WAS, YOU KNOW, A FENDER
00:18:19.36\00:18:20.73
BENDER - I DON'T THINK
ANYONE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED,
00:18:20.73\00:18:22.63
BUT THEY WERE DISTRACTED.
AND YOU'D BE SURPRISED WHAT
00:18:22.63\00:18:26.53
PEOPLE DO WHILE
THEY'RE DRIVING. TEXTING!
00:18:26.53\00:18:30.91
I CAN'T TEXT WHEN IT'S
GOT 100% OF MY ATTENTION.
00:18:30.91\00:18:35.31
MY BIG OLD STUBBY FINGERS - I
ALWAYS DIAL LIKE THREE OR FOUR
00:18:35.31\00:18:37.61
LETTERS AROUND THE
ONE I'M TRYING TO HIT.
00:18:37.61\00:18:40.65
TRYING TO DO IT WHILE I'M
DRIVING IS REALLY RECKLESS.
00:18:40.65\00:18:45.82
READING? I KNOW
PEOPLE THAT ARE DRIVING
00:18:45.82\00:18:47.96
DOWN THE ROAD
AND THEY ARE READING.
00:18:47.96\00:18:51.49
APPLYING MAKE-UP - I'VE SEEN
IT - HAVE YOU SEEN THAT BEFORE?
00:18:51.49\00:18:58.10
I'VE SEEN IT -
DON'T POINT AT ANYBODY.
00:18:58.10\00:19:03.17
WE MIGHT HAVE A
CAMERA ON YOU AT THAT MOMENT.
00:19:03.17\00:19:07.08
BUT I HAVE, I'VE PULLED UP AT AN
INTERSECTION ON MY WAY TO WORK
00:19:07.08\00:19:10.31
AND I'LL SEE THE PEOPLE
POWDERING THEMSELVES OR MEN HAVE
00:19:10.31\00:19:13.78
GOT THEIR ELECTRIC RAZORS OUT
AND THEY'RE SHAVING AS THEY GO
00:19:13.78\00:19:16.18
DOWN THE ROAD AND SOME KIDS
ARE PLAYING VIDEO GAMES WHILE
00:19:16.18\00:19:20.56
THEY'RE DRIVING
- ON THEIR PHONES.
00:19:20.56\00:19:23.76
I KNOW SOME THAT PUT DVD PLAYERS
ON THEIR DASH AND THEY DRIVE
00:19:23.76\00:19:26.63
DOWN THE ROAD AND
THEY'RE WATCHING A MOVIE.
00:19:26.63\00:19:31.93
AND THESE - THESE DISTRACTIONS,
OBVIOUSLY, CAN BE DEADLY.
00:19:31.93\00:19:36.67
WELL, YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL HAS A
THOUSAND DEADLY DISTRACTIONS FOR
00:19:36.67\00:19:39.77
US THAT CAN GET US TO JUST KIND
OF NIBBLE OUR WAY RIGHT OUT OF
00:19:39.77\00:19:44.08
THE FOLD. JESUS WARNS US ABOUT
THAT. YOU KNOW IN BOTH LUKE 17
00:19:44.08\00:19:49.25
AND LUKE 21 HE TALKS
ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD.
00:19:49.25\00:19:52.29
LISTEN TO LUKE 17, VERSE 30
- "EVEN THUS SHALL IT BE IN THE
00:19:52.29\00:19:56.66
DAY WHEN THE SON
OF MAN IS REVEALED.
00:19:56.66\00:19:59.16
IN THAT DAY, HE THAT IS ON HIS
HOUSETOP AND HAS STUFF IN THE
00:19:59.16\00:20:02.50
HOUSE, LET HIM NOT
COME DOWN AND TAKE IT AWAY.
00:20:02.50\00:20:06.00
AND HE THAT IS IN THE FIELD,
DON'T LET HIM RETURN BACK."
00:20:06.00\00:20:08.70
AND THEN JESUS, ONE OF THE
SHORTEST VERSES IN THE BIBLE -
00:20:08.70\00:20:11.91
YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS?
'REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE.'
00:20:11.91\00:20:16.68
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN GOD SAID
YOU NEED TO TURN AND RUN FOR
00:20:16.68\00:20:20.52
YOUR LIFE AND DO NOT BECOME
DISTRACTED AND DO NOT SAY, 'OH,
00:20:20.52\00:20:24.42
BUT I FORGOT THIS AND I FORGOT
THAT, AND I'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE
00:20:24.42\00:20:27.09
AND PACK.' HE SAID,
'YOU JUST RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.'
00:20:27.09\00:20:31.86
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF
THE BOOK 'PILGRIM'S PROGRESS'?
00:20:31.86\00:20:35.26
THE BOOK BEGINS WITH THIS
PILGRIM WHO GETS A MESSAGE FROM
00:20:35.26\00:20:38.23
EVANGELIST AND HE SAYS,
'ARISE AND FLEE FROM THE CITY OF
00:20:38.23\00:20:42.50
DESTRUCTION. FLEE
FROM THE WRATH TO COME.'
00:20:42.50\00:20:45.07
AND HE TRIES TO DILLY DALLY
AND SPEND TIME TRYING TO DO
00:20:45.07\00:20:47.51
OTHER THINGS AND BRING PEOPLE
WITH HIM, AND HE SAYS, 'LOOK,
00:20:47.51\00:20:49.94
YOU'VE GOT TO FLEE.' THAT'S WHAT
LOT DID. THE ANGELS FINALLY HAD
00:20:49.94\00:20:52.85
TO TAKE HIM AND
DRAG HIM OUT OF THE CITY.
00:20:52.85\00:20:55.28
AND LIKE LOT'S WIFE, WE'RE
ALWAYS TEMPTED TO BE LOOKING
00:20:55.28\00:20:57.85
EVERYWHERE BUT STRAIGHT AHEAD
- GOING BACK FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
00:20:57.85\00:21:02.92
I HEARD ABOUT A MAN DURING
THE TSUNAMI IN JAPAN LAST YEAR -
00:21:02.92\00:21:07.56
THERE IN ONE OF THE TOWNS - I
DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE
00:21:07.56\00:21:10.10
TOWN, BUT YOU PROBABLY SAW THE
STORY AND HE AND HIS WIFE HEARD
00:21:10.10\00:21:13.20
THE ALARMS THAT TOLD HIM TO RUN
FOR COVER AND THEY ACTUALLY WERE
00:21:13.20\00:21:17.61
LEAVING THE HOUSE AND THEY WOULD
HAVE MADE IT - AND THEY THOUGHT,
00:21:17.61\00:21:20.28
YOU KNOW, WE PROBABLY HAVE TIME
TO GET SOME OF OUR VALUABLES -
00:21:20.28\00:21:22.84
AND THEY TURNED BACK INTO THE
HOUSE AND THEY WERE OVERTAKEN.
00:21:22.84\00:21:27.62
AND HE AND HIS WIFE HELD ONTO
EACH OTHER FOR A WHILE - THE
00:21:27.62\00:21:30.29
HOUSE DISINTEGRATED
- THEY WERE SEPARATED.
00:21:30.29\00:21:32.79
NINE DAYS AFTER THE TSUNAMI
HE WAS FOUND OUT IN THE OCEAN BY
00:21:32.79\00:21:35.82
THE JAPANESE
COAST GUARD ON HIS ROOF.
00:21:35.82\00:21:39.96
WHAT WAS LEFT OF
HIS ROOF? DO SOME OF YOU
00:21:39.96\00:21:41.46
REMEMBER THAT STORY? AND
HE WILL FOREVER REGRET THAT
00:21:41.46\00:21:45.17
THEY WENT BACK - GOT DISTRACTED.
WHAT DESERVES MORE OF YOUR
00:21:45.17\00:21:50.24
ATTENTION THAN
JESUS AND ETERNAL LIFE?
00:21:50.24\00:21:54.24
WHAT IN THIS WORLD IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT?
00:21:54.24\00:21:57.25
LUKE 21 - JESUS TELLS US THERE
AGAIN - SPEAKING OF THE LAST
00:21:57.25\00:22:00.92
DAYS - "BUT TAKE HEED TO
YOURSELF LEST YOUR HEARTS BE
00:22:00.92\00:22:05.65
WEIGHED DOWN WITH CAROUSING
AND DRUNKENNESS AND THE CARES OF
00:22:05.65\00:22:10.33
THIS LIFE." NOW, WE
KNOW ABOUT CAROUSING
00:22:10.33\00:22:13.50
AND DRUNKENNESS - THAT'S BAD
BEHAVIOR - BUT THE CARES OF THIS
00:22:13.50\00:22:16.80
LIFE - ANYONE HAVE
CARES OF THIS LIFE?
00:22:16.80\00:22:19.70
THAT SORT OF
ENCOMPASSES EVERYBODY.
00:22:19.70\00:22:21.44
WE CAN BECOME SO DISTRACTED WITH
EVEN GOOD THINGS THAT WE FORGET
00:22:21.44\00:22:25.11
THE MOST IMPORTANT CRUCIAL THING
- "LEST THAT DAY COME UPON YOU
00:22:25.11\00:22:29.24
UNEXPECTEDLY FOR IT WILL COME AS
A SNARE ON ALL THOSE WHO DWELL
00:22:29.24\00:22:33.68
ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH."
NOW, I READ HERE A MOMENT AGO
00:22:33.68\00:22:36.65
IN THE BIBLE 'THE LORD
IS NOT WILLING THAT EVEN
00:22:36.65\00:22:38.52
ONE SHOULD
PERISH.' WILL THE MAJORITY
00:22:38.52\00:22:41.06
BE SAVED OR LOST? YOU
KNOW, IT JUST BREAKS MY
00:22:41.06\00:22:44.43
HEART TO SAY IT, BUT JESUS SAID,
'STRAIGHT IS THE GATE AND NARROW
00:22:44.43\00:22:48.36
IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO LIFE
AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT.'
00:22:48.36\00:22:52.17
BROAD IS THE WAY THAT LEADS
TO DESTRUCTION BUT GOD IS NOT
00:22:52.17\00:22:55.14
WILLING THAT EVEN
ONE SHOULD BE LOST.
00:22:55.14\00:22:57.14
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
IT MEANS THAT THE PEOPLE
00:22:57.14\00:23:00.41
CHOOSE TO DO
OTHER THINGS. HOW SAD.
00:23:00.41\00:23:04.38
THE LORD IS DESPERATE
FOR EVERYBODY TO BE SAVED.
00:23:04.38\00:23:06.75
HE PAID A GREAT PRICE FOR
YOU TO BE SAVED SPECIFICALLY -
00:23:06.75\00:23:10.45
NOT JUST THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:23:10.45\00:23:11.79
HE WOULD HAVE
DONE IT JUST FOR YOU.
00:23:11.79\00:23:14.06
TO WASTE THAT INVESTMENT OF
GOD'S OWN LIFE IS SUCH A TRAGEDY
00:23:14.06\00:23:20.86
- ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU CONSIDER
NOBODY NEEDS TO BE LOST AND IT
00:23:20.86\00:23:24.03
IS TRUE YOU ARE HAPPIER IN
CHRIST EVEN IN THIS LIFE, NOT TO
00:23:24.03\00:23:29.74
MENTION ETERNITY.
IT'S SO MUCH BETTER FOR THE
00:23:29.74\00:23:32.74
CHRISTIAN EVEN IN THIS
LIFE. I'M A LOT HAPPIER NOW AS A
00:23:32.74\00:23:36.24
CHRISTIAN THAN I WAS WHEN
I WAS OUT THERE IN THE WORLD.
00:23:36.24\00:23:39.58
YOU STILL HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT YOU
DON'T GO TO SLEEP HUNG OVER AND
00:23:39.58\00:23:42.45
WAKE UP GUILTY - NO, WAKE UP
HUNG OVER, GO TO SLEEP GUILTY.
00:23:42.45\00:23:47.52
I'VE PROBABLY DONE BOTH.
MARK 4 - YOU KNOW, THE PARABLE
00:23:47.52\00:23:52.46
OF THE DIFFERENT
SOILS JESUS SHARES.
00:23:52.46\00:23:56.70
AND THE GOSPEL SEED IS SPREAD
ON ALL THE DIFFERENT GROUND -
00:23:56.70\00:23:59.90
THERE'S ONLY ONE KIND OF GROUND
THAT REALLY BRINGS FORTH FRUIT
00:23:59.90\00:24:03.10
BUT, IN PARTICULAR, HE TALKS
ABOUT - IN VERSE 19 - "AND THESE
00:24:03.10\00:24:08.24
ARE THOSE WHO ARE SOWN AMONG
THE THORNS SUCH AS THEY HEAR THE
00:24:08.24\00:24:11.41
WORD AND THEY SPRING UP, BUT
THE CARES OF THIS WORLD AND THE
00:24:11.41\00:24:16.75
DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES AND THE
LUST OF OTHER THINGS" - IT CAN
00:24:16.75\00:24:22.12
EVEN BE MATERIALISM THAT
CAN BECOME A DISTRACTION - JUST
00:24:22.12\00:24:25.16
OWNING A LITTLE
BIT OF EVERYTHING.
00:24:25.16\00:24:27.13
WE CAN BECOME SO BURDENED WITH
POSSESSIONS THAT YOU CAN BECOME
00:24:27.13\00:24:30.50
A SLAVE TO CREDIT CARD DEBT AND
THE DEVIL IS CAPTURING A LOT OF
00:24:30.50\00:24:34.94
PEOPLE WITH THOSE
KIND OF DISTRACTIONS.
00:24:34.94\00:24:37.51
THE LUST OF OTHER THINGS ENTERS
IN AND IT CHOKES THE WORD AND IT
00:24:37.51\00:24:40.81
BECOMES UNFRUITFUL. NOW, YOU
MIGHT BE THINKING, 'PASTOR DOUG,
00:24:40.81\00:24:43.91
THAT'S ME. I GUESS I'M JUST BAD
SOIL. I'M THE THORNY GROUND -
00:24:43.91\00:24:48.75
WHAT AM I TO DO?'
WELL, IT TELLS US IN THE
00:24:48.75\00:24:51.12
WORD THAT SOIL CAN BE CHANGED.
YOU READ IN JEREMIAH 4:3, "THUS
00:24:51.12\00:24:55.92
SAYS THE LORD, BREAK
UP YOUR FALLOW GROUND."
00:24:55.92\00:24:58.79
PRAY AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL
BRING HIS ROTOTILLER ACROSS YOUR
00:24:58.79\00:25:01.53
LIFE AND FERTILIZE YOUR HEART
AND YOU CAN HAVE GOOD SOIL.
00:25:01.53\00:25:07.40
WE NEED TO PRAY THAT GOD
WILL GIVE US THAT NEW BEGINNING.
00:25:07.40\00:25:11.27
NOW, HERE'S SOMETHING I
THINK NEEDED TO BE SAID.
00:25:11.27\00:25:13.31
ONE REASON THAT SOME PEOPLE
STOP GOING TO CHURCH - THEY'RE
00:25:13.31\00:25:16.14
DISTRACTED BY
BLESSINGS. THINGS ARE TOO GOOD.
00:25:16.14\00:25:25.32
WE ALWAYS THINK THAT, YOU KNOW,
THE DEVIL SENDS THE HARD TIMES -
00:25:25.32\00:25:28.32
SOMETIMES THE DEVIL
SENDS THE GOOD TIMES.
00:25:28.32\00:25:31.89
I THINK IT WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
WHO SAID, 'MORE PEOPLE ARE
00:25:31.89\00:25:34.83
DESTROYED BY ABUNDANCE THAN
WANT.' LET ME READ YOU A VERSE -
00:25:34.83\00:25:40.54
DEUTERONOMY 6, VERSE
10 - HERE'S THE CONTEXT.
00:25:40.54\00:25:43.71
DEUTERONOMY IS MOSES' LAST
SERMON BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF
00:25:43.71\00:25:46.47
ISRAEL CROSS OVER INTO THE
PROMISED LAND AND HE IS GOING TO
00:25:46.47\00:25:50.65
GIVE THEM VICTORY OVER THEIR
ENEMIES, BUT THE PROMISED LAND
00:25:50.65\00:25:52.85
IS POSSESSED BY SEVEN OTHER
NATIONS, AND HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW,
00:25:52.85\00:25:56.82
YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE INTO THESE
NATIONS WHERE THEY'VE ALREADY
00:25:56.82\00:25:58.35
GOT THINGS BUILT AND ESTABLISHED
AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU A WARNING
00:25:58.35\00:26:02.32
- DEUTERONOMY 6, VERSE 10 - "SO
IT SHALL BE WHEN THE LORD YOUR
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GOD BRINGS YOU INTO A LAND THAT
HE SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS, TO
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ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB,
TO GIVE YOU LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL
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CITIES THAT YOU DIDN'T BUILD;
HOUSES FULL OF ALL GOOD THINGS
00:26:12.20\00:26:17.51
THAT YOU DID NOT FILL, HEWN
OUT WELLS THAT YOU DID NOT DIG,
00:26:17.51\00:26:22.44
VINEYARDS AND OLIVE
TREES THAT YOU DID NOT PLANT."
00:26:22.44\00:26:25.11
BRINGS THEM INTO A LAND
FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY -
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"AND WHEN YOU HAVE EATEN AND YOU
ARE FULL THEN BEWARE, LEST YOU
00:26:27.62\00:26:34.59
FORGET THE LORD WHO BROUGHT YOU
OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT FROM
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THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE."
TRANSLATION - IF GOD BLESSES
00:26:37.79\00:26:41.30
YOU - YOU GET THE GOOD
EDUCATION, YOU GET THE GOOD JOB,
00:26:41.30\00:26:43.73
YOU GET THE NICE CAR, YOU GET
THE NICE HOUSE, YOU'RE HEALTHY
00:26:43.73\00:26:46.20
AND WEALTHY AND WISE AND YOU'VE
GOT FRIENDS, YOU TAKE VACATIONS,
00:26:46.20\00:26:52.24
AND YOU CAN AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME
THAT YOU'RE ON THE ROAD TO
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HEAVEN BECAUSE YOU'RE BLESSED.
AND YOU CAN BE SELF-DECEIVED -
00:26:54.74\00:26:58.85
YOU CAN BE LOST AND NOT
EVEN KNOW IT, IF YOU DON'T HAVE
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CHRIST AT THE
CENTER OF YOUR LIFE.
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IT SAYS, 'BEWARE THAT YOU FORGET
THE LORD WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF
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EGYPT.' THAT MEANS WHO SAVED
YOU FROM YOUR SLAVERY TO SIN.
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SO, WE NEED TO ASK GOD TO ALSO
HELP US KNOW WHAT OUR STATE IS
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BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALWAYS GOVERNED
BY GOOD TIMES AND BAD TIMES.
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YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS
A PERSON CAN DO TO KEEP FROM
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NIBBLING THEIR WAYS OUT
OF THE CHURCH? GET INVOLVED.
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ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS IS
FOR PEOPLE TO GO AND JUST SIT.
00:27:28.64\00:27:32.35
IF THEY GO WEEK AFTER WEEK AND
JUST SIT AND SORT OF TAKE IT IN
00:27:32.35\00:27:34.78
- WE ARE, LET'S FACE IT, LIVING
IN A GENERATION THAT IS BEING
00:27:34.78\00:27:37.25
PROGRAMMED LIKE WE'RE
SPECTATORS ALL THE TIME.
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THE APOSTLES WERE NOT
SPECTATORS OF CHRISTIANITY.
00:27:41.39\00:27:44.79
THE EARLY DISCIPLES ALL
FELT OWNERSHIP OF GETTING THIS
00:27:44.79\00:27:48.63
MESSAGE OUT.
THEY ALL HAD A PASSION
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THAT THEY WERE
INVOLVED. THEY NEEDED TO DO
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SOMETHING GREAT.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ONE TIME, WAS
00:27:52.63\00:27:55.94
RIDING HOME AFTER A SERMON
IN HIS CARRIAGE AND HE WAS WITH
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HIS SECRETARY AND THE SECRETARY
SAID, 'MR. PRESIDENT, HOW DID
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YOU ENJOY THE MESSAGE
TODAY?' AND LINCOLN, IN HIS VERY
00:28:03.88\00:28:07.22
STRAIGHT WAY SAID,
'I DIDN'T CARE FOR IT.'
00:28:07.22\00:28:10.29
AND THE SECRETARY SAID, 'WELL,
I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY ELOQUENT.'
00:28:10.29\00:28:13.29
HE SAID, 'WELL, HE WAS
ELOQUENT BUT HE DIDN'T ASK ME TO
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DO ANYTHING GREAT.'
PEOPLE WANT TO BE CHALLENGED
00:28:15.32\00:28:20.50
WITH A PURPOSE THAT IS
BIGGER THAN THEIR OWN LIVES.
00:28:20.50\00:28:23.53
SOMETHING THAT IS WORTH NOT ONLY
LIVING FOR, BUT SOMETHING WORTH
00:28:23.53\00:28:26.10
DYING FOR. I
REMEMBER READING AN AD THAT
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WAS IN A LONDON PAPER - I
DIDN'T READ IT, IT WAS YEARS
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AGO, I READ ABOUT IT.
THIS IS WHAT IT SAID, "MEN
00:28:34.31\00:28:38.08
WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY,
SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG
00:28:38.08\00:28:43.25
MONTHS OF DARKNESS, CONSTANT
DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL.
00:28:43.25\00:28:49.66
HONOR AND
RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS."
00:28:49.66\00:28:53.26
THE AD WAS SIGNED BY THE
ARCTIC EXPLORER SIR ERNEST
00:28:53.26\00:28:55.26
SHACKLETON.
RIGHT AFTER THE AD RAN,
00:28:55.26\00:28:58.17
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INSTANTLY
RESPONDED - PEOPLE THAT
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WANTED TO DO SOMETHING GREAT.
THEY WANTED TO HAVE A PURPOSE.
00:29:02.37\00:29:05.74
JESUS HAS CALLED YOU WITH
THE GREATEST MESSAGE AND THE
00:29:05.74\00:29:09.81
GREATEST MISSION IN THE WORLD -
TO SAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE PERISHING
00:29:09.81\00:29:15.12
AND HELP THEM LIVE.
WHAT'S GREATER THAN THAT?
00:29:15.12\00:29:17.62
AND TO GO AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO -
THE WHOLE WORLD - AND TO LIVE A
00:29:17.62\00:29:21.66
LIFE THAT IS A CONTRADICTION OF
THE ACCUSATIONS OF THE DEVIL -
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TO LIVE A NEW LIFE AS A
NEW CREATURE - TO BE HOLY.
00:29:24.96\00:29:28.93
WELL THAT'S A
CHALLENGE - THAT'S AN ADVENTURE.
00:29:28.93\00:29:30.90
TALK ABOUT AN
ADVENTURE, LIVE LIKE CHRIST.
00:29:30.90\00:29:34.00
WE'VE GOT TO GET INVOLVED.
00:29:34.00\00:29:36.44
PEOPLE SELDOM LOSE THEIR
RELIGION BY BLOW OUT, THEY
00:29:36.44\00:29:40.28
USUALLY LOSE IT BY A
SLOW LEAK - LITTLE BY LITTLE.
00:29:40.28\00:29:45.91
AND THEN, SOMETIMES IT'S BEING
FAITHFUL RIGHT WHERE YOU'RE AT
00:29:45.91\00:29:49.32
AT THE MOMENT - STAYING
INVOLVED. I THINK IT WAS C.S.
00:29:49.32\00:29:53.39
LEWIS WHO SAID, "A GLIMPSE OF
THE NEXT THREE FEET OF ROAD IS
00:29:53.39\00:29:56.69
MORE IMPORTANT AND USEFUL
THAN A VIEW OF THE HORIZON.
00:29:56.69\00:29:59.83
ARE YOU BEING FAITHFUL
WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW?
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DO SOMETHING. DON'T
JUST WAIT FOR SOMETHING
00:30:02.43\00:30:04.27
LATER DOWN THE ROAD,
BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW?
00:30:04.27\00:30:07.57
YOU ASK WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD?
WELL, HERE'S THE ANSWER TRUE.
00:30:07.57\00:30:12.97
THE NEAREST THING THAT SHOULD
BE DONE THAT HE CAN DO THROUGH
00:30:12.97\00:30:15.51
YOU. ALL OF US HAVE
BEEN CALLED BY THE LORD.
00:30:15.51\00:30:19.55
SOME GET DISTRACTED BY
MONEY - THE MAKING OF MONEY.
00:30:19.55\00:30:25.89
NOW, MONEY IS NOT EVIL, IT'S THE
LOVE OF MONEY THAT IS THE ROOT
00:30:25.89\00:30:28.59
OF ALL EVIL, BUT
JESUS WAS PRETTY CLEAR.
00:30:28.59\00:30:31.43
HE SAID 'A MAN'S LIFE DOES
NOT CONSIST IN THE ABUNDANCE OF
00:30:31.43\00:30:34.00
THINGS HE POSSESSES AND IT IS
HARDER FOR A RICH MAN TO ENTER
00:30:34.00\00:30:36.97
THE KINGDOM OF GOD THAN FOR A
CAMEL TO GO THROUGH THE EYE OF A
00:30:36.97\00:30:39.23
NEEDLE.' THERE
ARE EXCEPTIONS IN THE
00:30:39.23\00:30:41.44
BIBLE, BUT WHAT WORRIES
ME IS EVERYBODY I MEET WANTS
00:30:41.44\00:30:44.04
TO BE THE EXCEPTION.
YEAH, THERE ARE SOME HOLY, GODLY
00:30:44.04\00:30:49.08
RICH PEOPLE BUT
THEY WERE THE EXCEPTIONS.
00:30:49.08\00:30:52.88
ABUNDANCE, AS I SAID,
IT CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS.
00:30:52.88\00:30:55.05
YOU KNOW, FOR OTHER PEOPLE
IT'S NOT JUST EDUCATION OR THEIR
00:30:55.05\00:30:58.25
CAREER OR THEIR WORK, SOMETIMES
IT'S ENTERTAINMENT BECOMES A
00:30:58.25\00:31:01.52
DISTRACTION - OR
SPORTS. PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY MAKE
00:31:01.52\00:31:06.66
A RELIGION OUT OF SPORTS.
I'VE TRAVELED TO SOME PART OF
00:31:06.66\00:31:08.76
THE WORLD THAT THEY OUGHT
TO REALLY HAVE ALTARS TO SOCCER
00:31:08.76\00:31:11.10
- OR WHAT THEY CALL FOOTBALL.
IT'S LIKE A RELIGION AND IF
00:31:11.10\00:31:15.07
THEIR TEAM WINS THEY
STORM THE FIELD AND RIOT.
00:31:15.07\00:31:18.31
IF THEIR TEAM LOSES THEY
STORM THE FIELD AND RIOT.
00:31:18.31\00:31:22.31
AND IT'S JUST - HOW MANY OF
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:31:22.31\00:31:25.25
NOW, WE'RE A LITTLE MORE
SELF-POSSESSED MAYBE HERE IN
00:31:25.25\00:31:27.72
NORTH AMERICA, BUT IT'S
A RELIGION NONETHELESS, FOR
00:31:27.72\00:31:29.78
OTHERS. SOME,
EVERY SUNDAY, WORSHIP AT
00:31:29.78\00:31:32.85
THE ALTAR OF THEIR FAVORITE
SPORTING EVENT - AND NOW THEY'VE
00:31:32.85\00:31:36.16
GOT, YOU KNOW, TEN
SPORTS CHANNELS ON CABLE, ALL
00:31:36.16\00:31:38.93
LINED UP NEXT TO EACH
OTHER. IN HIGH DEFINITION THEY
00:31:38.93\00:31:41.96
CAN WORSHIP THEIR GODS.
SOMEBODY ONCE MADE A COMPARISON
00:31:41.96\00:31:48.40
BETWEEN WORSHIPING
SPORTS AND WORSHIPING GOD.
00:31:48.40\00:31:52.17
AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT 'WHY I
GAVE UP SPORTS' - HERE ARE THE
00:31:52.17\00:31:58.01
REASONS THAT THEY GAVE UP SPORTS
AND - SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF
00:31:58.01\00:32:02.82
WE APPLIED THIS TO
CHURCH. "EVERY TIME I WENT
00:32:02.82\00:32:06.05
THEY ASKED FOR
MONEY. SO I GAVE UP SPORTS.
00:32:06.05\00:32:10.86
THE PEOPLE I SAT NEXT
TO DIDN'T SEEM FRIENDLY.
00:32:10.86\00:32:15.10
THE SEATS WERE TOO HARD
AND NOT AT ALL COMFORTABLE.'
00:32:15.10\00:32:18.97
SOME PEOPLE STOP GOING
TO CHURCH FOR THOSE REASONS.
00:32:18.97\00:32:21.07
'I WENT TO MANY GAMES, BUT THE
COACH NEVER CAME TO VISIT ME.
00:32:21.07\00:32:25.81
THE REFEREES MADE DECISIONS
I JUST COULDN'T AGREE WITH.
00:32:25.81\00:32:30.61
THE GAME WENT INTO OVERTIME
AND I WAS LATE GETTING HOME.'
00:32:30.61\00:32:34.38
EVER COMPLAINED BECAUSE
CHURCH WENT INTO OVERTIME?
00:32:34.38\00:32:38.95
'THE BAND PLAYED NEW
SONGS THAT WEREN'T MY STYLE.
00:32:38.95\00:32:43.69
IT SEEMS THAT GAMES WERE ALWAYS
SCHEDULED WHEN I HAD OTHER
00:32:43.69\00:32:45.83
THINGS TO DO. I
REALIZED I WAS SITTING NEXT TO
00:32:45.83\00:32:50.03
SOME HYPOCRITES DURING THE
GAME, THEY CAME TO TALK TO THEIR
00:32:50.03\00:32:52.50
FRIENDS AND
WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION.
00:32:52.50\00:32:56.47
I WAS TAKEN TO TOO MANY GAMES
BY MY PARENTS WHEN I WAS GROWING
00:32:56.47\00:32:59.71
UP.' THESE ARE THE SAME THINGS
PEOPLE SAY ABOUT CHURCH - YOU
00:32:59.71\00:33:03.65
REALIZE THAT? 'I HATE
TO WAIT IN THE TRAFFIC
00:33:03.65\00:33:07.58
JAM IN THE PARKING
LOT AFTER THE GAME.'
00:33:07.58\00:33:10.59
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH
TO GET YOU TO CHURCH, FRIENDS,
00:33:10.59\00:33:12.59
ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE
ENOUGH TO GET YOU TO HEAVEN?
00:33:12.59\00:33:15.46
AND YET THESE ARE THE KIND
OF THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT
00:33:15.46\00:33:17.69
CHURCH, BUT YOU NEVER HEAR
PEOPLE SAY THIS ABOUT WHY THEY
00:33:17.69\00:33:20.23
GAVE UP SPORTS. THEY
ENDURE ALL KINDS OF BAD
00:33:20.23\00:33:23.00
BEHAVIOR AND
MISCONDUCT BECAUSE THEY LOVE IT.
00:33:23.00\00:33:29.04
WHEN WE LOVE THE LORD, WHEN
WE LOVE HIS WORD, WHEN WE LOVE
00:33:29.04\00:33:32.97
JESUS, WHAT'S
GOING TO KEEP US AWAY?
00:33:32.97\00:33:36.54
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PEOPLE
THROUGH HISTORY THAT HAVE DIED
00:33:36.54\00:33:38.35
ON THEIR WAY TO CHURCH AND THEY
KNEW THAT THEIR LIVES MIGHT BE
00:33:38.35\00:33:41.65
THREATENED IF THEY
WENT. BUT IT WAS SO IMPORTANT
00:33:41.65\00:33:44.22
TO THEM THAT THEY WENT. AND
SOME HAVE BECOME DISTRACTED.
00:33:44.22\00:33:49.12
I SAW ANOTHER ONE - I MAY
AS WELL READ THESE TOGETHER.
00:33:49.12\00:33:51.86
'EXCUSES THAT PEOPLE GIVE FOR
WHY THEY DON'T GO TO CHURCH.'
00:33:51.86\00:33:55.70
WHAT IF THEY APPLIED
THOSE EXCUSES TO FOOD?
00:33:55.70\00:34:00.60
HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT? I
NEVER EAT ANYMORE BECAUSE I
00:34:00.60\00:34:05.61
WAS FORCED TO EAT AS A CHILD.
PEOPLE THAT EAT ALL THE TIME ARE
00:34:05.61\00:34:11.81
HYPOCRITES,
THEY'RE NOT REALLY HUNGRY.
00:34:11.81\00:34:15.15
THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT
KINDS OF FOOD I COULDN'T DECIDE
00:34:15.15\00:34:17.15
WHAT TO EAT, SO I QUIT. I
USED TO EAT BUT I GOT BORED
00:34:17.15\00:34:21.59
EATING THE SAME THING,
SO I JUST STOPPED EATING.
00:34:21.59\00:34:25.33
I ONLY EAT ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS
LIKE CHRISTMAS AND EASTER AND
00:34:25.33\00:34:28.56
WEDDINGS. NONE OF MY FRIENDS
00:34:28.56\00:34:31.83
WILL EAT WITH ME. SOME
PEOPLE DON'T GO TO CHURCH
00:34:31.83\00:34:34.37
BECAUSE THEY HAVE
NO ONE TO GO WITH THEM.
00:34:34.37\00:34:36.64
I'LL START EATING WHEN I
GET OLDER - I'LL FAST WHILE I'M
00:34:36.64\00:34:40.58
YOUNG. I DON'T REALLY
HAVE TIME TO EAT. SOME DON'T.
00:34:40.58\00:34:46.88
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT EATING
REALLY DOES ANYBODY ANY GOOD -
00:34:46.88\00:34:49.52
IT'S JUST A CRUTCH FOR
WEAK PEOPLE. THE RESTAURANTS AND
00:34:49.52\00:34:53.59
GROCERY STORES ARE
ONLY AFTER YOUR MONEY.
00:34:53.59\00:34:59.06
NOW, THE REASON I SHARE THAT
WITH YOU IS, HOW IMPORTANT IS
00:34:59.06\00:35:03.20
CHURCH IN OUR
CHRISTIAN LIFE FOR OUR HEALTH?
00:35:03.20\00:35:06.87
JESUS SAID, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE
BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD
00:35:06.87\00:35:11.57
THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH
OF GOD.' THE LORD SAYS, 'I HAVE
00:35:11.57\00:35:14.14
ESTEEMED THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH
MORE THAN MY NECESSARY FOOD.'
00:35:14.14\00:35:19.31
WELL, I STARTED OUT TALKING
ABOUT A WANDERING SHEEP AND I'VE
00:35:19.31\00:35:22.28
WANDERED A LITTLE BIT
JUST DEALING WITH SOME OF THE
00:35:22.28\00:35:24.09
DISTRACTIONS THAT GET THESE
SHEEP OFF TRACK - TALKING ABOUT
00:35:24.09\00:35:28.69
SOME OF THE BACK
SLIDING THAT TAKES PLACE.
00:35:28.69\00:35:31.66
WELL, LET'S GO
BACK TO OUR SHEEP AGAIN.
00:35:31.66\00:35:34.56
WHY WOULD A SHEPHERD
GO LOOK FOR ONE SHEEP?
00:35:34.56\00:35:38.40
NOW, YOU KNOW THAT THE BIBLE
BEGINS AND ENDS WITH SHEEP?
00:35:38.40\00:35:42.67
YOU CAN READ IN GENESIS
'ABEL WAS A KEEPER OF SHEEP.'
00:35:42.67\00:35:46.54
IT GOES ALL THE WAY BACK.
YOU GO TO THE LAST CHAPTER OF
00:35:46.54\00:35:48.48
THE BIBLE AND YOU ARE INVITED TO
THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB.
00:35:48.48\00:35:53.88
THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT JESUS AS
THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN FROM THE
00:35:53.88\00:35:56.99
FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
AND ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO
00:35:56.99\00:36:00.59
REVELATION IT'S TALKING ABOUT
SHEPHERDS SO IT'S PROBABLY GOOD
00:36:00.59\00:36:03.63
FOR US TO CONSIDER THIS FOR JUST
A MOMENT BECAUSE JESUS COMPARES
00:36:03.63\00:36:06.76
US SOMETIMES TO WANDERING SHEEP
AND HE IS THE GREAT SHEPHERD.
00:36:06.76\00:36:13.60
WHY WOULD A SHEPHERD NOTICE THAT
ONE SHEEP IS MISSING IF HE HAD A
00:36:13.60\00:36:17.27
HUNDRED. YOU KNOW,
IF YOU HAD A HUNDRED
00:36:17.27\00:36:20.68
SHEEP UP ON A GREEN HILL, CAN
YOU JUST LOOK UP THERE AND LOOK
00:36:20.68\00:36:23.98
DOWN AND SAY, 'OH,
I SPOT ONE'S MISSING'?
00:36:23.98\00:36:26.61
THEY ALL KIND OF LOOK A DINGY
WHITE COLOR AND THEY KIND OF
00:36:26.61\00:36:32.02
MELD TOGETHER AND IF ONE SHEEP'S
IN FRONT OF ANOTHER IT WOULD BE
00:36:32.02\00:36:34.62
PRETTY HARD TO NOTICE THAT ONE
IS MISSING UNLESS YOU COUNTED.
00:36:34.62\00:36:40.03
YOU KNOW HOW A LOT OF PEOPLE END
UP MISSING FROM OUR CHURCHES?
00:36:40.03\00:36:43.06
BECAUSE WE DON'T EVER COUNT.
WE SAY, 'WELL THAT'S PROUD TO
00:36:43.06\00:36:46.27
COUNT.' OH, A GOOD
SHEPHERD COUNTS HIS
00:36:46.27\00:36:48.77
SHEEP - HOW ELSE ARE YOU
GOING TO KNOW ONE IS MISSING.
00:36:48.77\00:36:51.97
THAT'S WHEN YOU RUN
THEM THROUGH THAT SHEEP GATE.
00:36:51.97\00:36:53.98
YOU SAY, 'ONE, TWO, THREE.'
BRINGING THEM BACK INTO THE
00:36:53.98\00:36:55.58
FOLD AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE
SHEPHERD COUNTS THEM AND SAYS,
00:36:55.58\00:36:57.98
'WAIT A SECOND, LET'S
COUNT AGAIN, ONE IS MISSING.
00:36:57.98\00:37:00.82
AND SO THE SHEPHERD SAYS, 'WELL,
99 OUT OF 100, THAT'S NOT BAD
00:37:00.82\00:37:06.25
AND I CAN REPORT TO THE CEOS
THAT WE'VE GOT 99% ACCURACY.
00:37:06.25\00:37:12.66
ANY OF YOU EVER GO TO WALMART
WITH FIVE KIDS AND COME OUT WITH
00:37:12.66\00:37:15.53
FOUR AND SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW,
FOUR OUT OF FIVE ISN'T BAD.'
00:37:15.53\00:37:22.77
WOULD WE THINK THAT WAY?
DO YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN MORE
00:37:22.77\00:37:26.98
THAN THE LORD LOVES HIS
SHEEP? NOW, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU
00:37:26.98\00:37:32.11
A QUESTION - BE HONEST.
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE PARENTS
00:37:32.11\00:37:36.15
- HAVE YOU EVER AT
LEAST TEMPORARILY MISPLACED A
00:37:36.15\00:37:39.12
CHILD IN SOME PUBLIC SPOT?
NOTICE MY HAND IS GOING UP.
00:37:39.12\00:37:46.16
MATTER OF FACT, IT'S PROBABLY
TRUE THAT AT SOME POINT - AND IT
00:37:46.16\00:37:49.33
MIGHT JUST BE THE NATURE OF
THEIR GENES THEY INHERITED - I
00:37:49.33\00:37:51.90
MISPLACED ALL OF THEM
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY.
00:37:51.90\00:37:57.07
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT
FRANTIC FEELING WHEN YOU TURNED
00:37:57.07\00:38:01.21
AROUND AND YOU LOOKED UP ONE OR
TWO AISLES IN THIS STORE AND YOU
00:38:01.21\00:38:06.51
DIDN'T SPOT THEM RIGHT AWAY?
AND YOU LOOK A LITTLE HARDER
00:38:06.51\00:38:11.62
AND YOU SAY, 'YOU KNOW,
I' - ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE
00:38:11.62\00:38:13.12
LITTLE - YOU KNOW? AND
THEY'RE JUST SO ACTIVE AND
00:38:13.12\00:38:16.19
THEY RUN AND THEY SOMEHOW MANAGE
TO SLIP AWAY AND YOU START GOING
00:38:16.19\00:38:19.49
UP AND DOWN THE AISLES AND YOUR
PACE GETS A LITTLE FASTER AND
00:38:19.49\00:38:21.90
YOUR HEART STARTS BEATING A
LITTLE FASTER AND THEN IT COMES
00:38:21.90\00:38:25.20
INTO YOUR MIND ALL THE WEIRD
PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE AND
00:38:25.20\00:38:29.24
YOU CAN START
GETTING INTO A VIRTUAL PANIC.
00:38:29.24\00:38:33.64
I WAS IN A MALL ONE DAY AND I
SAW THIS LADY TRYING TO MANAGE A
00:38:33.64\00:38:36.18
VERY ACTIVE LITTLE GIRL -
SHE MUST HAVE BEEN TWO OR THREE
00:38:36.18\00:38:38.88
YEARS OLD - AND SHE KEPT RUNNING
OFF, SHE'D COME AND GET HER,
00:38:38.88\00:38:42.85
SHE'D RUN OFF, SHE'D COME AND
GET HER - KEPT A PRETTY GOOD EYE
00:38:42.85\00:38:44.42
ON HER AND THEN SHE GOT INVOLVED
IN A CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND.
00:38:44.42\00:38:46.96
I WAS SITTING THERE EATING
AT ONE OF THESE MALL COURTS JUST
00:38:46.96\00:38:48.69
WATCHING. AND THE
LITTLE GIRL TOOK OFF AND
00:38:48.69\00:38:53.19
BY THE TIME THE MOTHER TURNED
TO LOOK SHE - AND IT WAS A VERY
00:38:53.19\00:38:55.60
BUSY MALL DURING A
HOLIDAY - PEOPLE'S FEET AND
00:38:55.60\00:38:59.07
LEGS EVERYWHERE. THAT
LITTLE GIRL JUST - I MEAN
00:38:59.07\00:39:01.57
- SHE DIDN'T EVEN LOOK BACK.
SHE WAS JUST SO EXCITED AT ALL
00:39:01.57\00:39:04.71
THE PRETTY THINGS TO LOOK AT SHE
JUST TOOK OFF LIKE A SHOT AND
00:39:04.71\00:39:08.14
DISAPPEARED IN A SEA OF
HUMANITY AND I SAW THAT MOTHER -
00:39:08.14\00:39:13.82
SHE JUST - SHE RAN AROUND.
SHE CAME AROUND THE CORNER AND
00:39:13.82\00:39:15.88
SHE THOUGHT THAT HER LITTLE GIRL
HAD COME BACK AND SHE DIDN'T AND
00:39:15.88\00:39:17.95
HER WHOLE EXPRESSION TURNED
TO DESPERATION VERY QUICKLY.
00:39:17.95\00:39:22.06
WITH ALL THOSE PEOPLE AND
ANYTHING THAT COULD HAPPEN.
00:39:22.06\00:39:24.83
DOES THE LORD LOVE HIS
CHILDREN LESS THAN WE LOVE OURS?
00:39:24.83\00:39:29.80
HOW ANXIOUS IS HE
THAT HIS SHEEP COME HOME?
00:39:29.80\00:39:33.34
HOW ANXIOUS IS HE
THAT YOU COME HOME?
00:39:33.34\00:39:36.30
HOW MUCH DID HE PAY TO
REDEEM AND TO RECLAIM US?
00:39:36.30\00:39:41.51
WELL, SO, ONE
SHEEP IS IMPORTANT.
00:39:41.51\00:39:45.61
YOU NOTICE HE'S GOT
99 BUT ONE IS MISSING.
00:39:45.61\00:39:48.05
NOTICE THE VALUE OF EVEN ONE.
IT TELLS US THAT, YOU KNOW, I
00:39:48.05\00:39:57.23
JUST REMEMBERED A
STORY IN THE BIBLE.
00:39:57.23\00:40:00.23
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER
WHEN KING DAVID GOT INTO HIS
00:40:00.23\00:40:02.46
FORBIDDEN
ESCAPADE WITH BATHSHEBA?
00:40:02.46\00:40:05.87
I KNOW YOU WEREN'T THERE, BUT
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY IN THE
00:40:05.87\00:40:07.47
BIBLE. YOU
REMEMBER READING THIS.
00:40:07.47\00:40:12.11
AND GOD DIDN'T SAY
ANYTHING TO HIM RIGHT AWAY.
00:40:12.11\00:40:14.38
DAVID REALLY WANDERED BIG TIME -
AND DAVID USED TO BE A SHEPHERD.
00:40:14.38\00:40:18.51
SO MANY OF THE BIBLE HEROES WERE
- MOSES WAS A KEEPER OF SHEEP.
00:40:18.51\00:40:21.28
JOSEPH WAS A KEEPER OF
SHEEP. AND DAVID KEPT HIS
00:40:21.28\00:40:24.95
FATHER'S FLOCKS.
KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND TO TAKE
00:40:24.95\00:40:28.66
HIS ONE WIFE AND
DAVID HAD A HAREM.
00:40:28.66\00:40:32.16
GOD LET SEVERAL MONTHS GO BY
- LONG ENOUGH FOR THE BABY TO BE
00:40:32.16\00:40:35.36
BORN AND PROBABLY
UNDER A YEAR OF AGE.
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.03
FINALLY, THE PROPHET NATHAN
COMES IN AND HE SAYS TO DAVID,
00:40:38.03\00:40:40.77
'YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SITTING AS
JUDGE TODAY I'VE GOT A CASE I'D
00:40:40.77\00:40:43.51
LIKE TO BRING BEFORE YOU.
THERE'S A MAN IN THE KINGDOM AND
00:40:43.51\00:40:47.68
HE HAD MANY FLOCKS AND HERDS -
HE WAS VERY WEALTHY - AND HE HAD
00:40:47.68\00:40:51.55
A POOR NEIGHBOR THAT SHARED
A FENCE WITH HIM - VERY POOR
00:40:51.55\00:40:54.92
FAMILY, LIVED IN A SHACK AND
THEY HAD ONE EWE LAMB AND IT WAS
00:40:54.92\00:40:58.92
LIKE A CHILD - THEY BOUGHT
IT WHEN IT WAS LITTLE AND THEY
00:40:58.92\00:41:01.89
RAISED IT UP AND THEY NURSED
IT BY HAND AND IT EVEN SLEPT
00:41:01.89\00:41:04.86
IN THE HOUSE WITH THEM. IT
WAS LIKE A DAUGHTER TO THEM.
00:41:04.86\00:41:08.56
AND A VISITOR CAME TO SEE THE
WEALTHY RANCHER NEXT DOOR AND,
00:41:08.56\00:41:12.07
YOU KNOW, AS THE CUSTOM
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HAD AN
00:41:12.07\00:41:13.67
IMPORTANT VISITOR, YOU
WOULD KILL THE FATTED CALF OR
00:41:13.67\00:41:16.57
THE FATTED
MUTTON AND HAVE A FEAST.
00:41:16.57\00:41:19.44
AND INSTEAD OF TAKING ONE OF HIS
OWN SHEEP, HE TOOK THE ONE LAMB
00:41:19.44\00:41:22.88
OF HIS NEIGHBOR - THAT PRECIOUS
LAMB - AND HE SLAUGHTERED HIS
00:41:22.88\00:41:27.78
POOR NEIGHBOR'S ONE FAMILY PET
WHEN HE HAD FLOCKS AND HERDS.'
00:41:27.78\00:41:32.59
AND WHEN DAVID HEARD THAT HE
WAS SO OUTRAGED THAT PROBABLY
00:41:32.59\00:41:36.19
THE VEINS STOOD OUT IN HIS NECK
AND IN FURY HE SAID TO NATHAN
00:41:36.19\00:41:39.43
THE PROPHET 'THE MAN
THAT DID THIS WILL DIE!'
00:41:39.43\00:41:42.23
DAVID WAS THINKING BACK TO HOW
MUCH HE SACRIFICED TO SAVE HIS
00:41:42.23\00:41:45.57
FATHER'S SHEEP AND
NATHAN SAID, 'YOU'RE THE MAN.'
00:41:45.57\00:41:52.51
HAVE WE SOMETIMES
FORGOTTEN THE VALUE OF ONE?
00:41:52.51\00:41:56.44
JESUS WOULD LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
FOR ONE. YOU KNOW, I MARVEL AT
00:41:56.44\00:42:01.78
THE STORY WHEN DAVID WENT BEFORE
KING SAUL AND HE WANTED TO FIGHT
00:42:01.78\00:42:05.12
WITH GOLIATH AND KING SAUL SAID,
'YOU'RE JUST A YOUTH AND HE'S
00:42:05.12\00:42:09.69
BEEN A SOLDIER EVER SINCE HIS
YOUTH. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT
00:42:09.69\00:42:12.26
YOU CAN TAKE ON THIS GIANT?'
AND HE SAID, 'WELL, WHEN I
00:42:12.26\00:42:16.40
TOOK CARE OF MY FATHER'S FLOCKS,
ONE DAY A BEAR CAME AND TOOK ONE
00:42:16.40\00:42:21.07
LAMB AND I WENT AFTER THAT
BEAR AND I FOUGHT THE BEAR' -
00:42:21.07\00:42:26.21
NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS?
IT DOESN'T SAY HE KILLED IT WITH
00:42:26.21\00:42:28.08
A SLING - SOME STORYBOOKS SHOW
IT THAT WAY AND WE ILLUSTRATE IT
00:42:28.08\00:42:30.58
THAT WAY -
THAT'S NOT WHAT IT SAYS.
00:42:30.58\00:42:31.78
IT SAYS, 'I TOOK HIM BY THE
BEARD' - I DON'T KNOW WHERE A
00:42:31.78\00:42:34.42
BEAR'S BEARD IS BUT HE GOT AHOLD
OF IT AND IT SAYS, 'I SMOTE HIM'
00:42:34.42\00:42:42.26
- AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH TO
PUT YOU IN THE PAPERS - IT SAYS,
00:42:42.26\00:42:46.70
'AND THEN A LION CAME
AND I WENT AFTER THE LION.
00:42:46.70\00:42:50.83
AND I NOT ONLY RESCUED' - I
MEAN, I MIGHT TRY AND SCARE IT
00:42:50.83\00:42:52.73
OFF WITH SOME PEPPER SPRAY BUT
HE KILLED THE LION TO RESCUE ONE
00:42:52.73\00:42:58.41
LAMB. AND I ALWAYS
MARVEL WHEN I HEAR THAT STORY.
00:42:58.41\00:43:01.44
MAYBE SOME OF YOU HEARD ME
SHARE THIS BEFORE, BUT IT WAS
00:43:01.44\00:43:04.15
VERY VIVID FOR ME BECAUSE OUR
FAMILY USED TO HAVE GOATS AND WE
00:43:04.15\00:43:10.32
ACTUALLY HAD A COUPLE OF
GOATS AND HAD A LITTLE BABY AND
00:43:10.32\00:43:16.32
FINALLY WE GOT DOWN WHERE WE
HAD ONE GOAT AND I WOKE UP ABOUT
00:43:16.32\00:43:21.20
FIVE IN THE MORNING AND OUR
WHOLE HOUSE SHOOK BECAUSE THE
00:43:21.20\00:43:23.63
GOATS ACTUALLY SLEPT UNDER THE
HOUSE - I LIVED IN A RANCH BACK
00:43:23.63\00:43:26.53
IN THE HILLS - THE
WHOLE HOUSE JUST WENT 'BANG!'
00:43:26.53\00:43:29.50
AND THE WHOLE HOUSE SHOOK -
FIVE IN THE MORNING - IT'S STILL
00:43:29.50\00:43:31.24
DARK OUT. I WOKE
UP AND THEN I HEARD
00:43:31.24\00:43:32.61
LIBBY, OUR GOAT, SCREAMING.
IT WASN'T COMPLAINING FOR FOOD,
00:43:32.61\00:43:37.85
IT WAS A DESPERATE 'AAAH! AAAH!'
AND IT KEPT GOING ON AND I
00:43:37.85\00:43:42.95
WOKE UP AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE
DISCOMBOBULATED WHEN YOU FIRST
00:43:42.95\00:43:45.79
WAKE UP AND YOU'RE
GOING, 'WHAT IS GOING ON?'
00:43:45.79\00:43:47.16
AND THEN I REALIZED A LION
OR A BEAR OR SOMETHING - WE HAVE
00:43:47.16\00:43:49.29
MOUNTAIN LIONS UP THERE
IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - WAS
00:43:49.29\00:43:53.03
DRAGGING LIBBY
OFF. NOW ALL I HAD FOR
00:43:53.03\00:43:57.33
DEFENSE WAS A .22
RIFLE THAT WAS OUT BEHIND THE
00:43:57.33\00:44:01.30
SEAT IN MY BROKEN
DOWN NISSAN PICKUP.
00:44:01.30\00:44:04.47
AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU
FRIENDS, I WAS SO SHAKEN BY WHAT
00:44:04.47\00:44:07.61
WAS HAPPENING I THOUGHT TO
MYSELF, 'AM I GOING OUT THERE IN
00:44:07.61\00:44:10.58
THE DARK?' I HAD -
I DIDN'T HAVE ELECTRIC
00:44:10.58\00:44:12.55
LIGHTS UP THERE, I WAS WAY UP
IN THE HILLS - 'AM I GOING OUT
00:44:12.55\00:44:14.85
THERE IN THE DARK TO TRY AND
FIND MY .22 TO SHOOT A BEAR WITH
00:44:14.85\00:44:18.79
A .22?' AND YOU KNOW
WHAT, I DIDN'T GO OUTSIDE.
00:44:18.79\00:44:25.43
I'M ALWAYS ASHAMED TO TELL THAT
STORY, BUT YOU HAD TO BE THERE.
00:44:25.43\00:44:28.63
DON'T - YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE DONE.
00:44:28.63\00:44:35.10
IT'S PROBABLY TOO MUCH
INFORMATION, BUT I MAY AS WELL
00:44:35.10\00:44:36.84
TELL YOU THAT AT THAT SAME TIME
WE USED AN OUTHOUSE AND KNOWING
00:44:36.84\00:44:44.28
THAT BEAR WAS OUT THERE AT NIGHT
REALLY CAUSED PROBLEMS FOR OUR
00:44:44.28\00:44:46.61
FAMILY. AND THEN I
TURNED AND I READ IN
00:44:46.61\00:44:51.89
THE BIBLE HOW DAVID NOT ONLY
RESCUED THE LAMB, BUT KILLED
00:44:51.89\00:44:56.86
THE BEAR AND THE LION.
AND I ALWAYS FELT A LITTLE
00:44:56.86\00:45:00.66
BETTER WHEN I REALIZED, OF
COURSE, THAT WAS FOR A SHEEP AND
00:45:00.66\00:45:02.93
MINE WAS A GOAT AND, YOU
KNOW, GOATS ARE ALL LOST ANYWAY.
00:45:02.93\00:45:07.74
YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
ABOUT SEPARATING THE SHEEP AND
00:45:07.74\00:45:09.34
THE GOATS? GOATS AREN'T GOING
TO MAKE IT ANYWAY SO WHY DIE?
00:45:09.34\00:45:15.68
BUT THE LORD WOULD DO
ALL THAT FOR ONE LAMB.
00:45:15.68\00:45:20.32
HOW MUCH WOULD HE PAY FOR
YOU? DOES THE SHEPHERD CARE?
00:45:20.32\00:45:24.72
AND YOU KNOW IT'S A
BEAUTIFUL STORY THEN.
00:45:24.72\00:45:27.46
THE BIBLE TELLS US HE PROBABLY
GOES OUT AT NIGHT AND HE'S
00:45:27.46\00:45:31.23
ROAMING - BECAUSE AT THE END OF
THE DAY - YOU PASTURE THE SHEEP
00:45:31.23\00:45:34.00
DURING THE DAY, THEY'RE NOT
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS - AT THE END
00:45:34.00\00:45:37.13
OF THE DAY YOU BRING THEM BACK.
THE SUN'S GOING DOWN YOU BRING
00:45:37.13\00:45:38.93
THEM TO THE FOLD, YOU COUNT,
YOU'VE GOT 99 - COUNT AGAIN,
00:45:38.93\00:45:41.47
99 - FLUFFY'S MISSING.
AND THE SHEPHERD LEAVES THEM
00:45:41.47\00:45:48.78
IN THE FOLD, PROBABLY WITH
AN ATTENDANT - IT TOOK MORE THAN
00:45:48.78\00:45:50.78
ONE MAN TO TAKE CARE OF A
HUNDRED SHEEP IN BIBLE TIMES.
00:45:50.78\00:45:53.85
MAYBE THEY HAD SOME
SHEEP DOGS TO HELP WATCH THEM.
00:45:53.85\00:45:56.02
HE SAYS, 'I
BETTER GO FIND FLUFFY.'
00:45:56.02\00:45:58.65
AND HE TAKES OFF IN THIS
RUGGED, ROCKY TERRAIN THAT THEY
00:45:58.65\00:46:02.49
HAD THERE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
WHERE THEY HAD RAVINES AND THEY
00:46:02.49\00:46:04.86
HAD WILD JACKALS AND WOLVES -
AND YOU READ ABOUT WOLVES IN THE
00:46:04.86\00:46:07.76
BIBLE - THEY HAD BEARS AND THEY
HAD LIONS BACK THEN - AND HE
00:46:07.76\00:46:11.40
GOES TO DANGER - ALL THAT IN THE
DARK, FOR ONE - AND HE SEARCHES
00:46:11.40\00:46:19.11
AND HE SEARCHES AND IT'S COLD
AND IT'S INCONVENIENT AND HE'S
00:46:19.11\00:46:24.15
STUMBLING AROUND BUT FINALLY
HE FINDS IT AND HE REJOICES.
00:46:24.15\00:46:29.55
AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS?
00:46:29.55\00:46:30.59
HE SCOLDS THE SHEEP
AND SAYS, 'YOU DUMB SHEEP!'
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.69
IS THAT WHAT HE
DOES? OR IS HE HAPPY?
00:46:33.69\00:46:36.89
SOME PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO COME
BACK BECAUSE THEY THINK, 'YOU
00:46:36.89\00:46:39.73
KNOW, EVERYONE'S GOING TO
REMIND ME OF WHAT I DID WRONG.'
00:46:39.73\00:46:42.06
AND, BY THE WAY, IF YOU SEE
SOMEONE SHOW UP IN THE CHURCH
00:46:42.06\00:46:44.27
AND THEY HAVEN'T BEEN THERE IN A
WHILE, PLEASE DON'T SAY TO THEM,
00:46:44.27\00:46:46.60
'WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? YOU
KNOW WHAT I HEARD ABOUT YOU?
00:46:46.60\00:46:51.34
IS IT TRUE THAT YOU'VE
BEEN AT THE BAR?' BE LOVING AND
00:46:51.34\00:46:56.85
COMPASSIONATE AND REJOICE
WHEN THEY COME BACK. WHEN THAT
00:46:56.85\00:46:59.78
MISSING SON IS FOUND, WHEN THAT
MISSING SHEEP IS FOUND, WHEN
00:46:59.78\00:47:02.85
THAT MISSING COIN IS
FOUND, THERE IS REJOICING. AMEN?
00:47:02.85\00:47:10.63
HE COMES BACK AND IS REJOICING
SO MUCH HE CALLS ALL HIS
00:47:10.63\00:47:13.40
NEIGHBORS TOGETHER - YOU KNOW,
IF I FOUND A MISSING GOAT, I
00:47:13.40\00:47:15.56
WOULDN'T BRING ALL MY NEIGHBORS
TOGETHER AND HAVE A FEAST, BUT
00:47:15.56\00:47:18.63
THAT WAS HOW THEY FELT
BACK THEN ABOUT ONE SHEEP.
00:47:18.63\00:47:21.64
AND HOW DOES HEAVEN FEEL ABOUT
ONE OF GOD'S WANDERING CHILDREN
00:47:21.64\00:47:25.87
THAT COMES BACK TO
THE FOLD OF THE CHURCH?
00:47:25.87\00:47:29.01
IN 2005 THERE WERE SOME BOY
SCOUTS CAMPING IN THE WILDERNESS
00:47:29.01\00:47:34.18
OF UTAH - SOME PRETTY RUGGED
COUNTRY OUT THERE - AND ONE BOY,
00:47:34.18\00:47:38.49
BRENNAN HAWKINS GOT SEPARATED
FROM HIS BUDDY - HE HAD A BUDDY
00:47:38.49\00:47:42.16
AND HE WAS GETTING OUT OF
HIS CLIMBING GEAR AND AS HE WAS
00:47:42.16\00:47:44.16
GOING BACK TO THE
CAMP HE TOOK A WRONG TURN.
00:47:44.16\00:47:48.00
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GET
DISORIENTED IN THE WOODS - AND
00:47:48.00\00:47:50.97
BACKTRACKED THE WRONG WAY
AND JUST WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE
00:47:50.97\00:47:54.80
UNTIL HE WAS PLAIN LOST.
00:47:54.80\00:47:58.01
CALLED - TRIED TO FIND HIS
WAY BACK TO CAMP - HE COULDN'T.
00:47:58.01\00:48:01.94
EVENTUALLY THEY NOTICED THAT
HE WAS MISSING AND THEY STARTED
00:48:01.94\00:48:04.81
LOOKING FOR HIM AND WHEN THEY
REALIZED THAT THEY COULDN'T FIND
00:48:04.81\00:48:06.72
HIM, THEY CONTACTED THE
AUTHORITIES AND THEY CONTACTED
00:48:06.72\00:48:08.98
THE PARENTS AND A DESPERATE
SEARCH ENSUED FOR BRENNAN, WHO
00:48:08.98\00:48:13.32
WAS 11 YEARS OLD. THE
TEMPERATURES GOT COLD,
00:48:13.32\00:48:16.56
MOUNTAIN LIONS IN THE AREA, COLD
CREEKS, DANGEROUS WATERFALLS, A
00:48:16.56\00:48:20.86
LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LOST
AND DIED IN THIS WILDERNESS.
00:48:20.86\00:48:24.97
AND THEY'VE GOT 1400 PEOPLE
SEARCHING THE HILLSIDE FOR THAT
00:48:24.97\00:48:28.64
BOY. THE SUN WENT DOWN - ALL
NIGHT LONG NO - THEY COULDN'T
00:48:28.64\00:48:33.24
FIND HIM. CALLED. NEXT DAY
ANOTHER WHOLE DAY OF SEARCHING -
00:48:33.24\00:48:37.91
COULDN'T FIND HIM. THE PARENTS
WERE ABSOLUTELY DESPERATE
00:48:37.91\00:48:41.48
WONDERING HOW IT
WAS GOING TO END.
00:48:41.48\00:48:44.15
THREE DAYS GO BY AND THEY
COULDN'T FIND HIM - SEARCHING,
00:48:44.15\00:48:49.02
CALLING, 1400 PEOPLE COMBING THE
HILLS AND NOW THEY'RE STARTING
00:48:49.02\00:48:52.16
TO LOSE HOPE BECAUSE - BASED
ON PAST RECORDS OF WHAT HAD
00:48:52.16\00:48:55.46
HAPPENED TO OTHERS THAT GOT
LOST. AFTER FOUR DAYS ONE OF THE
00:48:55.46\00:49:01.40
SEARCHERS GOING DOWN A
TRAIL WITH AN ATV SPOTTED A VERY
00:49:01.40\00:49:05.14
HAGGARD-LOOKING 11-YEAR-OLD WHO
CAME OUT FROM BEHIND SOME BUSHES
00:49:05.14\00:49:09.31
AND IT WAS BRENNAN
AND HE MANAGED TO SURVIVE.
00:49:09.31\00:49:13.15
HE HAD CURLED UP AT NIGHT UNDER
HIS SWEATSHIRT, LEANED AGAINST A
00:49:13.15\00:49:15.65
TREE, CRIED HIMSELF TO SLEEP
LOOKING AT THE MOON, DRANK OUT
00:49:15.65\00:49:19.42
OF THE CREEKS AND ATE SOME
LEAVES - AND OTHER THAN BEING A
00:49:19.42\00:49:24.36
LITTLE DEHYDRATED
AND COLD, HE WAS FINE.
00:49:24.36\00:49:28.80
WHEN HE CAME RIDING INTO CAMP
WITH THIS MISSING BOY, HOW DO
00:49:28.80\00:49:31.93
YOU THINK THE
SEARCH PARTY BEHAVED?
00:49:31.93\00:49:34.24
HOW DO YOU THINK
HIS PARENTS REJOICED?
00:49:34.24\00:49:36.14
HOW DO YOU THINK THE LORD FEELS
WHEN HIS WANDERING SHEEP COME
00:49:36.14\00:49:39.51
BACK?
00:49:39.51\00:49:41.64
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YOUR VEHICLE TO
AMAZING FACTS TODAY.
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IT'S EASY TO TURN YOUR UNNEEDED
CAR, BOAT, RV, MOTORCYCLE - EVEN
00:50:30.76\00:50:35.63
ATVS AND JET SKIS - INTO A
SOUL-WINNING VEHICLE FOR CHRIST
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AND GET A TAX DEDUCTION.
00:50:40.24\00:50:42.44
AMAZING FACTS WILL ARRANGE TO
PICK UP YOUR VEHICLE AND PROVIDE
00:50:42.44\00:50:45.14
YOU WITH A
TAX-DEDUCTIBLE RECEIPT.
00:50:45.14\00:50:47.38
THE PROCEEDS FROM THE RESALE
WILL BE USED TO SHARE GOD'S
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TRUTH WITH MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD.
00:50:50.21\00:50:54.18
DON'T LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE
IN THE GARAGE COLLECTING DUST.
00:50:54.18\00:50:57.52
USE IT TO TRANSFORM
LIVES THROUGH AMAZING FACTS.
00:50:57.52\00:51:01.22
CONTACT US TODAY AND LET US
HELP TURN YOUR CAR, BOAT, RV, OR
00:51:01.22\00:51:05.19
MOTORCYCLE INTO
LIVES SAVED FOR CHRIST.
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(MUSIC) >>AMAZING
FACTS CHANGED LIVES.
00:51:11.87\00:51:22.41
>>I GREW UP HERE IN NEW YORK
CITY, I GUESS DEALING WITH ALL
00:51:22.41\00:51:26.98
THE TEMPTATIONS YOU
WOULD HAVE IN A BIG CITY.
00:51:26.98\00:51:30.29
EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD
IMAGINE THAT YOU COULD RUN INTO
00:51:30.29\00:51:33.39
- DRUGS, CRIME
- WAS ALWAYS HERE.
00:51:33.39\00:51:37.66
WHEN I WAS AT A YOUNG AGE I
ACTUALLY GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH
00:51:37.66\00:51:40.60
THE LAW AND MY ONLY OUT WAS TO
JOIN THE MILITARY AT THE TIME,
00:51:40.60\00:51:45.60
IN ORDER TO NOT DO TIME.
00:51:45.60\00:51:47.67
SO I LEFT NEW YORK AND TRAVELED
THE WORLD A LITTLE BIT WHILE I
00:51:47.67\00:51:51.57
WAS IN THE MILITARY.
EVENTUALLY I CAME BACK.
00:51:51.57\00:51:56.01
HAVING GROWN UP AS A HIP-HOP
KID I EVENTUALLY FOUND MYSELF
00:51:56.01\00:51:59.21
WORKING IN THE
MUSIC BUSINESS, ACTUALLY.
00:51:59.21\00:52:02.25
I WORKED AT A COUPLE OF MAJOR
RADIO STATIONS - HIP-HOP, REGGAE
00:52:02.25\00:52:05.72
- I WAS AT ALL THE BIG
REGGAE SHOWS WORKING THEM.
00:52:05.72\00:52:08.06
NO MATTER WHAT I DID TO TRY AND
SATISFY MYSELF, NOTHING REALLY
00:52:08.06\00:52:11.36
WORKED.
00:52:11.36\00:52:13.50
I REMEMBER I USED TO PLAY
AT THIS ONE CLUB IN MANHATTAN.
00:52:13.50\00:52:17.30
WE USED TO PLAY
THERE EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT.
00:52:17.30\00:52:19.83
SO I CAME HOME ONE SATURDAY
MORNING AFTER LEAVING THE CLUB
00:52:19.83\00:52:23.87
AND I TURNED ON THE VIDEO
CHANNEL LIKE I USUALLY DO.
00:52:23.87\00:52:27.21
SO THERE WAS THIS GUY ON THE
VIDEO CHANNEL TALKING AND HE WAS
00:52:27.21\00:52:29.48
DEFINITELY OUT OF PLACE, BUT THE
THINGS THAT HE WERE - THAT HE
00:52:29.48\00:52:33.11
WAS SAYING - JUST
TOTALLY AMAZED ME.
00:52:33.11\00:52:35.82
I NEVER HEARD ANYONE SPEAK ABOUT
THE BIBLE LIKE THIS BEFORE.
00:52:35.82\00:52:40.09
SO I STARTED COMING HOME EARLY
ON SATURDAY MORNINGS JUST TO
00:52:40.09\00:52:42.86
CATCH THIS SHOW.
00:52:42.86\00:52:44.49
I FOUND THE THINGS THAT HE WAS
SAYING ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, TO
00:52:44.49\00:52:47.76
THE POINT WHERE IT LITERALLY
MADE ME STOP AND START TO THINK
00:52:47.76\00:52:52.83
ABOUT HOW I WAS LIVING MY LIFE.
00:52:52.83\00:52:55.27
SO I FOUND THAT ALL OF THESE
THINGS THAT I HAD BEEN DOING TO
00:52:55.27\00:52:57.91
TRY AND FIND HAPPINESS WERE
ACTUALLY NOT MAKING ME HAPPY AT
00:52:57.91\00:53:01.88
ALL, BUT WERE REALLY
JUST LEAVING ME EMPTY INSIDE.
00:53:01.88\00:53:05.65
WHEN I STARTED READING THE BIBLE
AND IT STARTED TO MAKE SENSE, I
00:53:05.65\00:53:09.32
STARTED TO MAKE CHANGES.
00:53:09.32\00:53:10.89
I EVEN TRIED TO KEEP THE
SABBATH, WHICH I FAILED AT
00:53:10.89\00:53:14.56
MISERABLY.
00:53:14.56\00:53:16.02
SO I WAS ACTUALLY INVITED
BY AMAZING FACTS TO GO TO SEE A
00:53:16.02\00:53:19.76
LIVE SERIES AT ONE OF THE LOCAL
CHURCHES, BUT AFTER GOING THE
00:53:19.76\00:53:24.33
FIRST NIGHT I ENDED UP GOING
ANOTHER NIGHT AND ANOTHER NIGHT.
00:53:24.33\00:53:27.77
I STAYED FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES.
THAT WAS THE DAY I MADE A
00:53:27.77\00:53:30.47
DECISION THAT CHANGED
THE REST OF MY LIFE FOREVER.
00:53:30.47\00:53:33.24
I GAVE MY LIFE TO CHRIST AND
EVERYTHING WAS DIFFERENT AFTER
00:53:33.24\00:53:36.34
THAT. I MADE A
DECISION TO GIVE UP THE
00:53:36.34\00:53:38.68
MUSIC BUSINESS AND STOP
HANGING OUT AT ALL OF THE CLUBS.
00:53:38.68\00:53:41.78
I MADE A DECISION THAT
WAS ETERNAL FOR ME AND FOR MY
00:53:41.78\00:53:44.55
FAMILY. I
STARTED GOING TO CHURCH.
00:53:44.55\00:53:49.26
I GOT A POSITION IN CHURCH WHERE
I WAS ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF THE
00:53:49.26\00:53:52.59
PERSONAL MINISTRIES DEPARTMENT
AND THE SAME AMAZING FACTS
00:53:52.59\00:53:56.97
STUDIES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE, I
ACTUALLY GOT TO SHARE THEM WITH
00:53:56.97\00:54:00.64
PEOPLE AND SIT DOWN WITH
THEM AND TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS.
00:54:00.64\00:54:05.87
(MUSIC)
00:54:05.87\00:54:13.68
>>ARE YOU WONDERING WHAT LIES
AHEAD IN HUMAN HISTORY OR WHAT
00:54:13.68\00:54:17.62
RECENT WORLD EVENTS
ARE HARBINGERS OF THE END?
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ARE YOU READY FOR
THE COMING CRISIS?
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LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY OFFERS
CLEAR ANSWERS TO YOUR MOST
00:54:23.16\00:54:25.79
PRESSING QUESTIONS.
PRESENTED BY PASTOR DOUG
00:54:25.79\00:54:28.80
BATCHELOR, LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY
IS A CONTEMPORARY VIDEO BIBLE
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00:54:35.94\00:54:39.34
HELPING YOU UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE
BETTER AND GIVINNG YOU KNOWLEDGE
00:54:39.34\00:54:42.14
TO FACE THE
FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE.
00:54:42.14\00:54:44.41
LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY CONTAINS
OVER 30 HOURS OF EXCITING VIDEO
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INSIGHT INTO WHAT LIES NEXT IN
00:54:51.39\00:54:54.26
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YOU'D LIKE PRACTICAL TOOLS TO
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HELP YOU THRIVE AND
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(MUSIC)
00:55:13.44\00:55:23.52
>>TODAY'S SMART PHONES ARE A
VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF INFORMATION
00:55:23.52\00:55:26.39
THAT FITS IN THE
PALM OF YOUR HAND.
00:55:26.39\00:55:28.32
IT'S A GOOD THING WE
HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS!
00:55:28.32\00:55:30.46
WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR
GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR
00:55:30.46\00:55:34.10
EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO,
LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF
00:55:34.10\00:55:38.43
THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE
WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A
00:55:38.43\00:55:42.04
GOOD THING. AND,
YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE
00:55:42.04\00:55:44.31
COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART
00:55:44.31\00:55:47.84
PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY
NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON.
00:55:47.84\00:55:52.18
AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN
ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE
00:55:52.18\00:55:54.75
CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT
ANYMORE? TODAY COMMUNICATION IS
00:55:54.75\00:55:58.05
NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE
00:55:58.05\00:56:01.42
SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING.
THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT
00:56:01.42\00:56:06.93
2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING
00:56:06.93\00:56:10.53
WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS
IN SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING.
00:56:10.53\00:56:14.14
THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING
USED THAN THOSE WHO ARE SURFING
00:56:14.14\00:56:17.24
THE WEB OR EVEN
PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
00:56:17.24\00:56:19.67
AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS
MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT HERE IN THE
00:56:19.67\00:56:22.34
PHILIPPINES. EVEN
THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS
00:56:22.34\00:56:24.41
ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST
00:56:24.41\00:56:28.15
NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES
OF ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
00:56:28.15\00:56:31.32
THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST
COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400
00:56:31.32\00:56:34.86
MILLION TEXT MESSAGES
EVERY DAY. WOW, THAT'S A LOT
00:56:34.86\00:56:39.76
OF FINGER FATIGUE. EVEN
THOUGH THE GREATEST NUMBER
00:56:39.76\00:56:42.33
OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE
PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE
00:56:42.33\00:56:45.07
FASTEST TEXTER IN
THE WORLD IS FROM BRAZIL.
00:56:45.07\00:56:47.94
A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF
MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO - HE WAS
00:56:47.94\00:56:50.97
ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY COMPLICATED
WORDS IN A LITTLE MORE THAN 18
00:56:50.97\00:56:54.48
SECONDS. WOW, IT
TAKES ME LONGER THAN
00:56:54.48\00:56:57.65
THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE
YOU' TO MY WIFE AND PRESS SEND.
00:56:57.65\00:57:01.25
ALL THUMBS. ONE OF
THE NEAT THINGS ABOUT
00:57:01.25\00:57:04.29
TEXTING IS YOU CAN
TEXT JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE.
00:57:04.29\00:57:06.62
IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE
AND YOU WANT TO SEND A PERSONAL
00:57:06.62\00:57:08.62
MESSAGE, YOU TEXT.
YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY
00:57:08.62\00:57:11.33
OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT.
IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE
00:57:11.33\00:57:14.73
OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU
CAN TEXT - JUST DON'T TEXT
00:57:14.73\00:57:18.03
WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING.
THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL,
00:57:18.03\00:57:20.77
FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS
TEXT GOD A MESSAGE OF PRAYER
00:57:20.77\00:57:23.94
FROM YOUR HEART.
WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING
00:57:23.94\00:57:25.87
'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO
TO?' 'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?'
00:57:25.87\00:57:28.38
'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT
MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE PARTNER?'
00:57:28.38\00:57:31.58
YOUR PRAYERS
DON'T HAVE TO BE LONG.
00:57:31.58\00:57:33.01
THE SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE
IS THREE WORDS - WHEN PETER
00:57:33.01\00:57:35.85
PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.'
AND JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER.
00:57:35.85\00:57:39.65
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU
CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO
00:57:39.65\00:57:42.19
GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER
00:57:42.19\00:57:45.66
BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO
SAY 'AMEN' AND PRESS THE SEND
00:57:45.66\00:57:48.16
BUTTON. IN FACT,
FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING
00:57:48.16\00:57:50.20
JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND
HIM REGULAR MESSAGES FROM
00:57:50.20\00:57:53.10
YOUR HEART TO HIS.
SO WHY DON'T YOU TALK
00:57:53.10\00:57:55.47
TO HIM RIGHT NOW? (MUSIC)
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>>FOR LIFE-CHANGING
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